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sclpio'8 order of battle. Insl-cad ordrawmg up his mampnh like the black sipnares of a chessboard- -tho nsiial order, so that, in advancing, the rnanipnli of the three lines eould form one nnbroken lino —he placcd tbem one behind tho other, likc the ronnds of a ladder, so as to leave spaces in the lines, through which th8 elephants might pass without trampling down or throwing into eonfusion tho infantry buttahons, e.g.:

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