This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1760 edition. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ART. I. The Manner of Mounting a Guard. I-think it will not be disagreeable to i8/ w our readers just to give a few short feKZ directions about the manner of mountMLiLjhJR ing and relieving a guard, posting and relieving of centries, and with regard to the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1760 edition. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ART. I. The Manner of Mounting a Guard. I-think it will not be disagreeable to i8/ w our readers just to give a few short feKZ directions about the manner of mountMLiLjhJR ing and relieving a guard, posting and relieving of centries, and with regard to the compliments to be paid by the guards, &c. to the officers. We shall be extremely concise on these heads, as we look on them not to be matters of such immediate use to the militia officers, unless when the militia is embodied; and then we must recommend to them, the excellent and most useful work, qf that brave experienced, and worthy officer, general Bland: where they will find all matters relating to the service, set forth and explained with a method and precision, which we have in vain endeavoured to attain to, in such parts as we have treated of; and to which we are greatly indebted. The different changes and alterations introduced into the the discipline of the army, since that book was first published, had made it to be looked upon as almost obsolete, and caused one of the best books on the subject, in our, or perhaps any other language, to be neglected, and not studied as it ought to have been; it is with great pleasure therefore that we find, that a new edition of it, is published, adapted to the present system of discipline; by a gentleman whom every body must allow most completely qualified for the undertaking: since we cannot but wish, that our militia officers would study it carefully and with attention; as they'will find in it almost every thing they can want to know, explained in a most skilful and masterly manner. II. When the militia is assembled in the Whitsunweek by battalion, it will be extremely proper that a guard should...
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