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11tis cditoJial opens with a sad note - the passing of Fred Vietmeyer. Fred wrote the Column. Line & Square rules that so many of we ''Old Guard' ' bit our wargaming teeth on. His passing marks l.he passing of an era in Miniature Wru-gruning and he wi ll be sadly missed. See the obituary on page 43.

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INFANTRY SQUARES In The NAPOLEONIC WARS

C 1997, Brent Nasworthy

is article \l'lH originally wrillen as a chapter in Mr. Nosll'orthy:v recent book WITH MUSKET AND SWORD. BAITLE TACTICS OF NAPOLEON AND HIS ENEMIES

(see The Cmtrier #71, PI: 44 ). The chapter did not find its way imo the book and I feel that it is as important to Historical Miniature Gamers as the rest of the book so 11•e have reprillfed it here with Mr. No.l'll'orthy:v kind permission. The book is available from Sarpedon Publishers, 166 Fifth Ave .. , NY, NY, 10010 (JSBN 1-885119-27-5) am/ is tl MUST read for all Napoleonic Period gamer.\·. - ED.

Although the square was not completely unknown during the seventeenth century, it was by necesl.ity an ad hoc formation which required more time to form than was available during actual battlefield conditions. With the adoption of cadence by the Prussian infantry during the 1730s and other armies between 17~8 and 1752. it became much more feasible to form square in the heat of an action.

When compared to the Napoleonic Wars. however. the use of squares during the Seven Years' War remained relatively rMe. The rea<>on for this lay not in the inability of the infantry to form square quickly - at thi~ point all the armies in western Europe were quickly adopting cadenced marching and the new manoeu­vres - but rather in the grand tactical implications that resulted once one or more squares were formed. The practice of forming long continuous bailie was simply inimical to the use of squares. If one or more ballalions along a lengthy line were to form square. the adjoining battalions would now have a t1an.k exposed

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and could be easily rolled up by the enemy cavalry. So. either all the baualions along the line h.ad to form square. or those that remained in line somehow had to protect any exposed flanks either by throwing back part of the line en potence (pan of the line was run perpendicularly backward) or en crochet (part of the line was thrown hack at an angle) or anchoring it behind some natural form of protection such as a morass. gully, etc. This might prove to difficult or impossible to do heat of the baule. however.

Once the French started to employ the French school or impulse system of grand tactics, these restrictions were immedi­ately eliminated. ln thts grand tactical system battalions were usually maintained in column of ll'aiting. Those lines that were formed were much smaller. i.e .. that is they were generally bat­talion. regimental or brigade-sized lines. And. a brigade com­mander could anchor these '>rnaller lines simply by placing a bat­talion in closed column at an exposed end rather than relying on terrain. All of this meant that a battalion or regiment comman­der was much more free to fonn square when threatened by cav­alry than his counterparts had been in earlier wars. The result was a proliferation of squares during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.

AILJ10ugh the word "square" conjures up battalion-sized for­mations. t11ere were in fact many different types of squares. rang­ing from small rallying squares which might only have 15-20 men to army-sized squares. What follows is a description of the largest of these down to the smallest.D ivisional Squares

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