Hello Mr. Cornwell, Big fan and have contacted you numerous times in the past. My question is, about the French Column formation. I was under the impression that the column was not actually used within musket range for the most part, until after 1807/08 when the quality of French Troops declined. I remember reading in Chandler’s “campaign’s of Napoleon” that the French in the revolutionary period deployed into a three rank line before the final assault. Tactics in that period are really so confusing, now I’m reading a book on the period that suggests that most of the battles were fought in loose skirmish order, but I cannot believe that for cavalry would have destroyed those troops. I guess we will never know for sure. Mark Anthony Savannah