"Visuals of French Company Dispositions" Topic

Hello. I used to have a very handy visual representation that detailed positions of companies in a French battalion in various formations, down to details of eagle bearers, various command on and off horseback, etc, in each formation with companies numbered. I can't for the life of me find that bookmark. It is possible it was in a video or book, but while memory is flawed I could've sworn it was a simple webpage or images. Think paint program colored blobs and rectangles.

Does anyone have what I remember or something like it? I will take a book reference as well because I may have it or would pick it up. I'd really just like any solid reference for all of those details in visual form.

Thanks very much.

Règlement concernant l'exercice et les manouvres de l'infanterie : du premier aout 1791 PDF link

Maybe this will help:
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George Naziger's "Imperial Bayonets" is also a useful book for diagrams.
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Probably you mean the flash animations made by Jakub Samek.

Links to the commands of the école de peloton (you need flash to be able to see them):

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And different changes of formation of the battalion:

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Another visualisation of the movements of the battalion:

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Thanks everyone. None of those are exactly it, but this is plenty and is great. I had never seen the Samek animations, the youtube channel was quite fascinating.

Thanks for the book. Will have to sit down with it later. At a glance those plates are amazing. I had to sit and take in 33 for a bit. They don't make illustrations like they used to.

It's interesting that most of the battalion maneuvers were still being used almost unchanged during the American Civil War. :)

Is this what you're looking for?

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