He thought also that their tenting together helped them not a little to gain a perfect acquaintance with their positions. For the captains had the companies under them in as perfect order as when a company was marching single file, and the lieutenants their platoons, and the sergeants and corporals their squads in the same way.
Cyropaedia. Xenophon. Walter Miller (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1914.
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