All 7 Uses of
echelon
in
The Killer Angels
- I want you to attack en echelon, to take Cemetery Hill in reverse.†
Chpt 2.3 *
- Well, we will step off in echelon, from right to left.†
Chpt 2.3
- Lee's attack was en echelon.†
Chpt 2.3
- Lee's echelon plan would never work.†
Chpt 2.3
- Even now, if Lee attacked en echelon, some of the brigades could not attack before dark, unless everything went very smoothly, and it would not go smoothly, not today.†
Chpt 2.3
- But it was the point of an echelon attack.†
Chpt 2.3
- He does not realize the attack is en echelon for a while; he thinks perhaps it is a diversion, and he will be hit on another flank.†
Chpt 2.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(echelon as in: upper echelons of the company) a level of a hierarchy
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
See a comprehensive dictionary for less common senses of echelon that relate to military formations.