demi-brigade

* The term demi-brigade replaced the term régiment from 1793 on the order of Carnot.

THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

* The term demi-brigade replaced the term régiment from 1793 on the order of Carnot.

THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

A staff-officer from Colonel Wood's demi-brigade informing me at this juncture that that command was too weak to carry the position in its front, I ordered the Fifteenth Indiana and the Twenty-Sixth Ohio to advance to Wood's aid, and then hastening to the front I found his men clinging to the face of the ridge, contending stubbornly with the rear-guard of the enemy.

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The demi-brigade was an awkward invention of Granger's; but at this time it was necessitated -- perhaps by the depleted condition of our regiments, which compelled the massing of a great number of regimental organizations into a division to give it weight and force.

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Directing Harker to put Opdyke's demi-brigade in on the right, I informed Wagner that it was necessary to flank the enemy by carrying the high bluff on our left where the ridge terminated, that I had designated the Twenty-Sixth Ohio and Fifteenth Indiana for the work, and that I wished him to join them.

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The task of reopening the line of retreat was entrusted to the 18th demi-brigade newly arrived from Lake Garda.

THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

The famous Amalgame of 1794 greatly facilitated this development, for the regular battalion in each demi-brigade was perfectly capable of moving and firing with reasonable accuracy in linear formation, while the two associated fédérés battalions were best employed in column on each flank.

THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

General Thurreau, with 2,500 men, was to move past Mount Cenis toward Modane; Chabran, with his division of 6,500, was to use the Little St. Bernard and join the main column at Aosta; and Béthencourt was to demonstrate noisily in the Simplon with a token force of a single demi-brigade.

THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

Thus a cavalry demi-brigade officially mustered some 900 sabers, but in fact rarely averaged more than two or three hundred during the Republican period.

THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

On paper a cavalry demi-brigade was divided into four squadrons, each being subdivided into two compagnies or troops of 116 cavalrymen apiece.

THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966