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CLOSE ORDER
  Battalion, 67
  Brigade, 73
  Company, 56
  Compared with extended order, 102
  Regiment, 73

CLOSE ORDER FORMATIONS,
  Effect of fire on, 102, 103
  Value of, 103, 104

COLLECTIVE FIRE, 169

COLOR, position of the, 68

COLT MACHINE GUN, 261

COLUMN
  Attack in, 44, 45
  Battalion in route, 72
  Broad (with plate), 67
  Close, definition of, 47
  Comparison with line, 42-45
  Deep (with plates), 67, 68
  Dimensions of broad and deep (plate), 69
  Double, 71
  French double (plate), 70
  Open, definition of, 47
  Route (machine gun battery), 273, 274
  Section (machine gun battery), 273, 274

COLUMN OF FOURS, 58
  How formed (plate), 58
  And squads compared, 59

COLUMN OF PLATOONS, 61
  How formed, 49
  Machine gun battery, 273, 274
  (plate), 62
  Vulnerability of, 186, 187

COLUMN OF SQUADS, 57
  Employment of, 59
  (plates), 57

COLUMN OF TWOS, 56

COLUMNS, line of company, France (plate), 70

COMBAT
  Conduct and duties of the leaders, 399
  Drill, importance of, 105
  Duration of, 178
  Frontage—see Frontage.
  Infantry, 448-467
    Austria, 448-450
    France, 453-459
    Italy, 451-453
    Japan, 463-465
    Japanese, Characteristics of, 341
    Russia, 466
    Switzerland, 466-467
    Versus artillery, 316
    Versus cavalry, 301
    Versus machine guns, 268