Reinforcements as they arrived at Durban had been pushed rapidly up by rail north of Maritzburg, and the British troops were now echeloned along the railway up to Estcourt.
Bullock, had reached the donga immediately in rear of Long's guns, the rest of that battalion being echeloned in the open, further back as a support.
Colonel Pachler therefore ordered the 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry, to remain in its present position until the 2d Battalion, echeloned to its right rear, could swing up on line facing north.
He was echeloned along the northernmost of the roads by which he could reach Metz, but had left a strong reserve on the Aisne on which he might fall back.
The Marshal could not know that his enemy was echeloned from Vitry to Varennes, a distance of more than thirty-seven miles, and was not at all in form to attack him just then in serious earnest.
The system of echeloned posts had not yet been developed.
His advanced troops were carefullyecheloned in fortified farms, each strongly concreted and armed with several machine guns.
The main body of the cavalry was echeloned on the left rear of the 2nd Brigade.
The infantry might have been drawn up in three echeloned squares.
They should be echeloned in depth as far as practicable.
The companies are then marched echelonedwith an interval of 7 paces.
Not too many should be placed in the front line, and they should be echeloned in depth so as to confuse their disposition.
The echeloned company formed front to the flank, and the supporting company followed suit.
The West Yorks had two companies in front trenches, one company echeloned in right rear and one company in support.
And so, of course, we yet had some distance to go, and now made our way through rice-paddies, echeloned on the flanks of the spurs that came down to meet us.
The flanks and important gaps in the line should be protected by fire trenches echeloned in rear.
The force for the counterattack should be held echeloned in rear of the flank which offers it the greatest advantage for the proposed attack.
If the battalion is operating alone, the support may, according to circumstances, be held in one or two bodies and placed behind the center, or one or both flanks of the firing line, or echeloned beyond a flank.
The force for the counter attack should be held echeloned in rear of the flank which offers it the greatest advantage for the proposed attack.
The local reserves of flank sections should usually be echeloned in rear of the flank, which can thus be protected at need by determined counter-attacks on the flank of the enveloping force.
As the whole Dervish army continued to advance, the division with the white flags, which had until now been echeloned in rear of their right, moved up into the general line and began to climb the southern slopes of Surgham Hill.
Baker was ordered to take his company to form a defensive flank behind the 6th, for the New Zealanders were still echeloned to the rear.
North of the grounds our line was echeloned forward and then ran due north to the corner of Hebuterne.
Detachments of the 4th Ersatz Division had to be echeloned back as far as Ostend, in order to defend the coast against hostile landings.
As the British Army was posted on the left, or exposed flank, I asked Joffre to place the French Cavalry Division, and two Reserve Divisions which were echeloned in reserve behind, directly under my orders.
The 1st Corps was echeloned on the right and in rear of the 2nd.
They would find themselves sandwiched between my detachments and in this way could be taken by surprise in the flank or rear by my troops echeloned further back.
On one occasion Lieutenant von Ruckteschell’s detachment, which had been nearest to the enemy, fell back on some of our troops which had been echeloned further back.
It was obvious that if I only echelonedmy troops deeply enough the enemy’s enveloping detachments would be placed in the greatest peril.
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