Company
a word of various applications, including: sociated for the performance of any (1) A number of persons legally asduty or the carrying on of any business. The profits are divided among the members or shareholders in proportion to the amount of capital invested. (2) The partners in any firm whose names do not appear in the title or style of the firm; in this use the word is generally contracted to Co. (3) A society, corporation, or guild for the promotion and protection of the interests of any trade. When companies are authorized by the State or Government, they are termed corporations.
In In military language, the smallest command of a captain of infantry. In the United States a company of infantry (full strength) numbers 100 men.
Europe it varies in strength from 48 rank and file (peace strength) to 120 (as in England), which is the limit of a dismounted officer's command, to 250 (as with the Continental armies), armies), where the captain is mounted. It is formed in three ranks in Germany, in two ranks in other countries, with a supernumerary rank containing the captain, a lieutenant, and the sergeants. In England it forms one-eighth of a war battalion, and has little independent action; on the Continent the company, which is one-fourth of the war battalion, acts almost independficers (captain and 2 subalterns), 5 serently. War strength (English): 3 ofgeants, 2 drummers, 5 corporals, 113 privates, 1 driver.