right-oblique

Updated: May 7, 2025

Moving by the right-oblique to a hill about three hundred yards distant, he opened a severe fire upon them, when they broke and fled. Thus both attempts to turn our flanks had been foiled by the skill and quickness of Colonels Barlow and Cross, and the determined bravery of the men I cannot forbear to mention in terms of highest praise the part taken by Col.

Charles Augustus Fuller - Personal Recollections of the War of 1861: As Private, Sergeant and Lieutenant in the Sixty-First Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry

Its use is to get the company out of the double line formation into a column of four men abreast, the usual marching formation. At the executive command, "March!" No. 1 front rank acts as the pivot, and makes a right-angled turn to the right, marking time in that position until the three other men in the front rank have executed a right-oblique movement and have come up on the new line.

Walter Camp - Keeping Fit All the Way