Facings go back millenia, at least as far as Alexander the Great, who was the first to realize the importance of coordinated movements of troops. Timing is everything. He devised a system whereby different parts of his armies wore different colored head sashes. A wave of a flag from the command post would send say the green band into battle, followed by a flanking movement from the wearers of red on the right. This was the origination of Alexander's Rag Time Bands.


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