Deployment

into line on a front division, the right in front, is effected by halting that division in the a ligne ment, and all the others in their true situations, parallel and well closed up to it; and then by taking a point for forming upon, and dre ing by it in the prolongation of that division. For a minute explanation of the deployments on a rear and central division. See American Military Library. Oblique Deployments differ from those movements, which are made when a battalion stands perpendicular to the line on which it is to form. These deployments are frequently made on an oblique line advanced, on an oblique line retired: and when the close column halted is to form in line in the prolongation of its flank, and on either the front, rear, or central division. See Am. Mil. Lib.