General Craufurd's ADC, LT James Shaw, wrote that at the assault on th lesser breach at Ciudad Rodrigo, the battalions:
"The 43rd and 52nd Regiments were formed in columns of sections and were abreast of each other; the 43rd formed the right-hand column of sections, the 52nd the left-hand column of sections."
The questions. . .
What is a section in the British Army?
What is a column of sections?
Thanks!
P.42 of the 1792 regulations is what you need;