Examples of Commands
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Files | open to the right | to your Open Order! |
Below are some examples of commands with sufficient instruction for all to do as their superiors desire. Click on a few (or all in sequence) to get a feel for the execution of any command. These examples involve only Order < > Open Order, but you're clever enough to extend those to commands for Close Order, Double Open Order, etc. These are quoted from William Barriffe's "The Young Artillery-Man...," chapter 6.
Colonel Barriffe has "divers words of command, and direction, for the several openings and closings of ranks and files." (italics his) They number nearly 50.
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