Napoleon Series Archive 2008

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"Arrivé au point d'attaque, le 5me corps change de direction par un mouvement de tete de colonne à droite; la Division Girard marche à l'ennemi en colonnes d'attaque. La 2me Division derierre, é 150 pas de distance, en colonnes d'attaque par bataillon."

So in case - if the tete de colonne shifted à droit - this would mean that there as a leading battalion of a bigger column of battalions - did they then - after this shift to the right deploy en ligne ( I don't mean deploying the battalion in lines but again deploying a line of battalion columns in deployment distances?) or

Did the Division Girard - form two lines of battalions, the second line about 300 paces behind the first line?

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