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- echelon - History Forum
Echelon The echelon formation is used when the unit wants to maintain security or observation of one flank and enemy contact is unlikely In the company echelon formation (left or right), the lead platoon positions farthest from the echeloned flank, with each subsequent platoon located to the rear of and outside the platoon in front of it
- Frederick the Greats - Oblique order and tactics - History Forum
Alexander the Great also used Echelon formation at Gaugamela, according to our sources Alexander also mixed his light cavalry of flank-guards with infantry in that battle
- Has anybody read Hans Delbruck? - History Forum
Definitely the best military historian IL'sHO Only Robert O'Connell can stand close to this man A few questions: can any of you who have read his volumes on the art of war describe to me his proposal of echelon tactics and cohort tactics? Thanks, Lasher
- USA vs Great Britain | Page 10 | History Forum
Shows what you know - in the 1850s in the Crimea the entire fighting echelon of an entire British corps landed in a single day, including the horses for the cavalry But where exactly is the active army going to be?
- Remembrance | History Forum
Not even all the Higher Echelon bought into the Nazi ideology Some did, some thought the armistice conditions after WW1 were too harsh and should be moderated especially as the German Army was down but not quite out and never surrendered Some were war mongers (every country had them) and some followed orders
- Operation Sea Lion War game: Hitlers invasion of Britain played out
Found this interesting summary of an exercise held at the Staff College, Sandhurst in 1974 Launched and run by various knowledgeable ex-servicemen (senior army, air and naval officers) from Britain and Germany, the war game worked out to the best of its ability how a German invasion of Britain
- Seeking more information on a 1938 meeting between Adolf Hitler and . . .
Further insight into the character of Nazidom"s top echelon was afforded by a session with Hitler"s right-hand man, Field Marshal Hermann Goering When Goering sent word that he would like me to lunch with him, I accepted it as an opportunity also to explore the furniture in his mind
- Top 10 Macedonian-Greek Generals of the Hellenistic Era (323 BCE- 30BCE)
Antigonous suffered heavy losses but initially he was planning to advance in an echelon and smash eumenes's wing with his stronger flank while the center and left were staggered behind to buy time It was one of his sub commanders who made a premature charge forcing antigonous to halt
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