The hoisting of the French tricolour above Fort Bamboo was greeted by the ships of the Far East squadron lying in Keelung harbour with blasts on their foghorns, and by cheers from the French troops echeloned back along the line of advance on the summits of Yueh-mei-shan and Liu-k'eng-shan.
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The two main gun turrets were sponsoned out over the sides of the ship and echeloned to allow both to fire fore and aft . The practice of " en echelon " mounting had begun with Italian battleships designed in the 1870s by Benedetto Brin and followed by the British Navy with, which was laid down in 1874 but not commissioned until October 1881.
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Triangular divisions were smaller, allowing for more divisions to be formed, and were considered more suited for the positional warfare which characterized World War I . A square division typically advanced with two brigades in line or with the brigades echeloned ( one ahead of the other ), with one regiment forward and one in reserve ready to engage when the first regiment came into contact with the enemy.
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During OIF ( 07-09 ), 13th CSSB executes logistic support to MNC-I forces by operating the major distribution activities at LSAA, including the Corps Storage Area ( CSA ), Corps Distribution Center ( CDC ), Central Receiving and Shipping Point ( CRSP ), Central Issue Facility ( CIF ), Aerial Delivery, and Mortuary Affairs Collection Point ( MACP ) . 13th CSSB provides reinforcing maintenance, water, and cargo handling support through forward-echeloned team operating at 11 Forward Operating Bases ( FOB ) through the Iraqi theater . 13th CSSB provided CSS training to Iraqi Security Forces to support the transition to national Iraqi control ( Logistics Transition Teams ).
