You evidently didn't score well in literature did you? Otherwise you would have recognized from my last sentence that it was an example using points of reference most readers would be likely to recognize.
“You evidently didn’t score well in literature did you? Otherwise you would have recognized from my last sentence that it was an example using points of reference most readers would be likely to recognize.”
What I recognized from your last sentence was that you haven’t a clue of how or where the events unfolded, and you’re just making up your own set of fictional facts, and rather absurd ones at that, as you go along. Your question reveals numerous laughable misconceptions.
“Think about it. If soldiers formed a moving wall, how do you practically clear the scene of disorder without moving the mob across the river and outside of D.C.? If say you were MacArthur and the mob was centered at the capitol steps, does moving them to the Washington Monument accomplish your orders? Unlikely.”
The District of Columbia is far larger than a “moving wall” of four colums of 600 soldiers can remotely encompass. The so-callled “moving wall” was simply a column of a very limited number of soldiers afoot, on horseback, some ancient Renault tanks, and a truckload transporting a machine gun section. This column moved down Pennsylvania Avenue with flankers along the paralleling streets on the flanks of the column on Pennsylvania Avenue and downwards of 11th Street to the 11th Street or Anacostia Bridge. The vast majority of the Distrrict of Columbia aside from Pennsylvania Avenue and the flanking streets were uninvolved in these events.
“If say you were MacArthur and the mob was centered at the capitol steps, does moving them to the Washington Monument accomplish your orders? Unlikely.”
The Washington Monument is located in the opposite direction in which the troops moved towards the site of the lethal confrontation with the District of Columbia Police in the block of buildings between Pennsylvania Avenue, Missouri Avenue, 3rd Street and Fourth Street and the Capitol Building. The Washington monument was already behind the Army troops and the Capitol Building was farther ahead when they arrived at the scene of the rioter’s confrontation with the District of Columbia Police. So your scenario is rather ridiculously the opposite of the real events. All Major General MacArthur was required to do was evict the rioters from that one block of buildings and bolster the cordon around the White House. Any further actions cold easily have limited the advance of the Federal troops to Washington City S.E. along a line along North Carolina Avenue from Garfield Park to Seward Place to Lincoln Square or perhaps South Carolina Avenue.
MacArthur was definitely ordered to not advance across the 11th Street or Anacostia Bridge to Camp Miles on the Anacostia Flats, which is precisely what MacArthur did in flagrant disobediance to the orders relayed from President Hoover by Secretary of War Hurley. There is a relatively tremendous distance between the Capitol building and the bridge, and the area of Washington S.E. had little or nothing to do with the squatters and violent riots located in the U.S. Government buildings of Washington City N.W.
Bottomline, Major General MacArthur’s orders would have been fulfilled without leaving Washington City N.W., particularly had he assited the D.C. Police to quell the armed rioting in just that one block of the city. It is clear from the evidence that MacArthur used his limited orders as an opportunity to breakup and evict the Bonus Expeditionary Force due to the Army intelligence and Secret Service reports about the Communists using the B.E.F. as cover to instigate a lethal incident/s to foment a popular revolution against the Federal and state governments.