Hierarchical organization, command structure, strength, disposition of personnel, and equipment of units and formations of the armed force.
1 At least twelve orders of battle may be enumerated, viz.
2 All the orders of battle may be formed of squares as well as with deployed lines.
3 This agrees with what I have said in relation to the convex and concave orders of battle .
4 The different orders of battle , or the grand maneuvers proper for the attack of the enemy's line.
5 In the plans, B is the army in position, and A the attacking force arranged according to the different orders of battle .
6 The orders of battle were less extended, and the more rational organization of armies in large bodies of two or three divisions was adopted.
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