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SECOND APPENDIX

followed. His lieutenants might naturally have understood it very differently, and, according to their interpretation of the order, would have executed one of the following formations:—

  1. Either the four divisions of the right wing would have been formed in four large masses, each one of eight or twelve battalions, (according to the strength of the regiments,) as is indicated in this figure for eight battalions.3
Eight horizontal, parallel lines of equal length stacked vertically, resembling a musical staff or ruled paper.
  1. Or each division would have been formed in eight or twelve columns of battalions by divisions of two platoons or companies, according to the system I have proposed, as in this figure, viz.:—
A series of eight groups of four horizontal lines, representing the hexagrams and trigrams used in the I Ching.

I do not mean to assert positively that this confusion of words led to the deep masses at Waterloo; but it

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