Napoleon Series Archive 2019

Width of a French Battalion in Column

At Busaco in 1810, the French regiments attacked in battalion columns. According to Oman, each column was a company wide.

Assuming this information is correct and a French infantry company had 100 men, would the column be 100 men wide or would the companies be 3 or 4 ranks deep? Or possibly more?

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