- 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
- Military Career of Alexander the Great, Start to Finish
Basically, Philip defeated the allied left (mainly Athenians) as his left 'fixed' their right (mainly Boeotians) before the gaps opened up How were the cavalry marshalled initially, one could ask? However how and where they were fielded, they by now were trained to attack en echelon, etc
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According to the original landing plan of Marshal Vasilevskiy, the 87th Rifle Corps was to be landed directly in the port of Rumoi in three successive waves, with one division in each echelon, ergo three stages of the operation were planned In the first two stages, it was supposed to capture
- 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
- Military Career of Alexander the Great, Start to Finish
The Macedonian infantry was good; that asks too much We also see nothing of the sort under Alexander afterwards - attacks en echelon being a quite different animal Alexander may well be on horseback but, on balance, the nature of the language of our only (and poor) literary source, Diodorus, describes, for me, infantry work
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Firstly crossing the Potomac took several days, because the trains are much larger than the fighting echelon Lee started his trains across the river on the 15th, and it wasn't complete until the 17th
- The Spartan defeat at Leuktra and the Theban wedge.
One of several aspects of the battle that interest me is Epaminondas' use of a 'wedge' or echelon formation, the protruding columns arrayed 50 shields deep, this proved devastatingly successful, which indicates that sheer weight mass played a role in phalanx combat, at least in this battle
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Echelon describes the shape of a formation Mutual supporting distance refers to the size of a formation, ie, how far apart the component units are from each other The idea of an all-arms formation is to make a unit that is independent of outside support
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