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ECHELON (Fr. from ecltelle, ladder)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 871 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ECHELON (Fr. from ecltelle, ladder)  , in military tactics, a formation of troops in which each
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body of troops is retired on, but not behind, the flank of the next in front, the position of the whole thus resembling the steps of a
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staircase . To form echelon from
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line, the parts of the line move off, each
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direct to its front, in succession, so that when the formation is completed the rightmost body, for example, is farthest advanced, the one originally next on its
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left is to the left
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rear, a third is to the left rear of the second, and so on . The word is also used more loosely to express successive lines, irrespective of distances and relative positions, e.g. the " second echelon of
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ammunition supply," which is fully a day's march behind the first .

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