Chequered retreat
A Chequered retreat, (retraite en échiquier, Fr.) is so called from the several component parts of a pre-mechanised line or battalion, which alternately retreat and face about in the presence of an enemy, exhibiting the figure of the chequered squares upon a chess board.[1]
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Notes
- ↑ James 1816, p. 845.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: James, Charles (1816), An Universal Military Dictionary, in English and French: In which are Explained the Terms of the Principal Sciences that are Necessary for the Information of an Officer, T. Egerton, p. 745
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