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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, See also:ladder) , in military See also:tactics, a formation of troops in which each See also: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 See also:staircase. To See also:form echelon from See also:line, the parts of the line move off, each See also:direct to its front, in See also:succession, so that when the formation is completed the rightmost body, for example, is farthest advanced, the one originally next on its See also:left is to the left See also:rear, a third is to the left rear of the second, and so on. The word is also used more loosely to See also:express successive lines, irrespective of distances and relative positions, e.g. the " second echelon of See also:ammunition See also:supply," which is fully a See also:day's See also:march behind the first.

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