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Over one hundred years later Robert Toombs, his grandson, protested against the fruitless charge at Malvern Hill, and obliquing to the left with his brigade, protected his men and managed to cover the retreat of his division. This was a family of soldiers. They were found in the old country fighting Cromwell's army of the rebellion.
Assured that his pursuers would search chiefly on the direct route between their abode and the village, to which they would necessarily surmise the flight was directed, he boldly determined upon a course, picked sinuously out, obliquing largely from the true direction, which, while it would materially lengthen the distance, would at least secure them, he thought, from the danger of contact with the scouring party.
Then the three first sides of our square, the second and the third obliquing to the right and left fired. God only knows how many Prussians fell. But instead of stopping they rushed on, shouting like wolves, "Vaterland! Vaterland!" and we fired again into their very bosoms. Then began the work of death in earnest.
Finally artillery again! every man in it loved by some one or dozen in these glad throngs. Clap! call! wave! Oh, gallant sight! These do not enter Royal Street. They keep Canal, obliquing to that side of the way farthest from the balconies "To make room," cries Victorine, "to form line pritty soon off horses, in front those cannon'." At the head rides Kincaid.
The left wing of the Prussian army was obliquing in admirable order to the left, and already gaining the right of the Austrians, according to the prescribed disposition, when the king, at once losing patience in the most unaccountable manner, sent directions to Prince Maurice of Dessau, who commanded the infantry, ordering him to wheel up and advance upon the enemy.
All glance toward the marching flank while at half step and take the full step without command as the last man arrives on the line. The pivot man makes a half change of direction to the right and the other men make quarter changes in obliquing. Being in line, to turn and march: 1.
A bale of linen, for instance, or some like unwieldy substance, would have to be got round; and, at each stage, I should have a choice either to proceed upward or in a horizontal direction whichever might appear the easiest. In this way I should rise by steps, as it were, obliquing always in the direction of the hatchway.
To resume the original direction: 1. Forward, 2. The men half face to the left in marching and then move straight to the front. If at HALF STEP or MARK TIME while obliquing, the oblique march is resumed by the commands: 1. Oblique, 2. Being in line: 1. The movement is executed by each rank successively and on the same ground.
The whole transaction was the work of a single instant; and before the squatters, who came with their slain leader, could sufficiently recover from the panic produced by the event to revenge his death, the youth was beyond their reach; and the assailing party of the guard, in front of the post, apprized of the sally by the discharge of the pistol, made fearful work among them by a general fire, while obliquing to the entrance of the pass just in time to behold the catastrophe, now somewhat precipitated by the event which had occurred below.
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