title: World War II Infantry Tactics: Squad and Platoon (Elite)
author:  Stephen Bull 
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  LIGHT INFANTRY TACTICS. TITLE V.
  
  
  EVOLUTIONS OF THE LINE.
  
  
  General principles and divisions of the Evolutions of the Line.
  
  
  990.* The School of the Battalion, comprehending the principle and details of
  all the movements that ought, in any case, to be made by a single battalion,
  it remains to apply those principles to a line of many battalions.
  
  
  991\. In this instruction, a line of eight battalions, making a corps d^armee
  of two divisions or four brigades, will be supposed; but the rules herein
  prescribed are equally applicable to a brigade, a division, or any number of
  battalions.
  
  
  992\. The School of the Battalion has been divided into five parts: the same
  division will 