Note 72 — Chapter IV · WELLINGTON’S INFANTRY TACTICS—LINE VERSUS COLUMN

At Arcola Augereau’s division attacked the bridge over a raised road passing over a dyke only 30 feet broad, with marshes on each side. There were three regiments, one behind the other. Cohorn’s column at Ebersburg was not so deep, only a brigade. But it had to defile over a bridge 200 yards long.