GDG- Three men to a yard?

[Batrinque at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/20/06 7:35:47 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
pennmardel at mchsi.com writes:

> It is not clear to me what he means by this.  Is Phanz saying that if lined
> up shoulder to shoulder, 220 men would only stretch over a 70-yard length.
> If so, this does not seem quite right.  I would think more realistically two
> men, with all of their accouterments, would take up a least one yard of
> space; therefore, 220 men would stretch over about 110 yards in length.  Was
> there a standard amount of space a line of men were supposed to cover during
> the CW (two per yard, three per yard)?
> 

I would imagine that what was intended was the standard 2-rank line of 
battle.  I think a decent rule of thumb when dealing with real life lines of battle 
about one foot per man should be allowed (2 feet for each man, actually, but 
half the men in the front line, half in the rear).

Bruce Trinque
Amston, CT