Definition of Echeloning

1. echelon [v] - See also: echelon

Lexicographical Neighbors of Echeloning

ecgonines
ech
echage
echappe
echappes
echard
echards
eche
eched
echelle
echelle grating
echelle gratings
echelles
echelon
echeloned
echeloning (current term)
echelons
echeosis
eches
echeveria
echeverias
echidna
echidnae
echidnas
echidnine
echin-
echinacea
echinaceas
echinacoside
echinate

Literary usage of Echeloning

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Technique of Modern Tactics: A Study of Troop Leading Methods in the by Paul Stanley Bond, Michael Joseph McDonough (1916)
"It is better to provide protection against an enveloping attack by echeloning trenches to the rear in short lengths. Where these trenches are visible from ..."

2. A Critical Study of German Tactics and of the New German Regulations by Marie Félix de Pardieu (1912)
"is assured by attacking the hostile flank, and this attack, like all enveloping attacks, will be better prepared by echeloning to the front one wing or both ..."

3. The United Service (1903)
"Reynolds, echeloning on their left, stirred up some of Stuart's cavalry and light ... echeloning on Reynolds it resulted that King's left flank was nearest ..."

4. The warfare of to-day by Paul Jean Louis Azan, Julian Lowell Coolidge (1918)
"By the same token, there are no rules for echeloning units in depth; we must give troops as much rest as possible, while making sure that the position is ..."

5. Tactics by William Balck (1914)
"PAGE Admixture of units 363 Ammunition, Expenditure of v 385 Battle ranges 421 echeloning batteries 310 Close range artillery fighting against cavalry 357 ..."

6. Journal of the United States Artillery by Coast Artillery Training Center (U.S.), Artillery School (Fort Monroe, Va.) (1902)
"The other pieces receive a correction for lateral sight allowance called echeloning, representing the number of divisions of lateral allowance that each ..."

7. Tactical Principles and Decisions by School of the Line (1920)
"Any possibility of interference can be eliminated by echeloning the brigade moving on the center road, or by echeloning the right column. ..."

8. The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Era, 1789-1815 by John Holland Rose (1895)
"echeloning his troops between Dijon and Geneva so as to leave it doubtful whether he intended to march to the Upper Danube, or against Me'las, ..."

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