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A new System of Military Discipline founded on
Principle.
By a GENERAL OFFICER.
CONTENTS.
Chap. I. Sed. I. Of dress. Art. i. Of clothing. 2, Of
convenience. 3. Of appearance. Sed. 11. Of arms. Art. 1.
Of the bayonet. 2. Of the firelock. Se&. 111. Of accou
trements.
Chap. 11. The duty of the Corporal. Se&. I. Inftrnai
ons. Sed. 11. Of refped to superiors. Art. 1. Of deport
ment. 2. C the handing salute. 3. Of the paffing.falute.
Sea. 111. T stand. Art. 1. Of handing ered. 2. Of plant
ing the feet Sea. IV. The facings. Sed. V. To march.
Art. I. To rdance the body. 2. To ground the fort. 3. To
limit the hep. 4. To preserve equality of pace. Four propo
sitions on the regularity of stepping and forming the ranks.
Art. 5. Of marching by files, wheeling, &c.
Chap. 111. Duty of the Serjeant. Se&. I. Inftru&ions in
twenty particulars. Sea. 11. The parade exercise, with ufe
ful obfervaiDns thereon.
Chap. IV. Duty and inftruaions of the Adjutant. The
method of performing the different kinds of parapet and re
joicing fires. Sea. 111. Of the column, exemplified in a va
riety of cases. Of passing a bridge.
Sea. IV. Of the square. The square formed out of one
battalion, confiding of four grand divisions exemplified in
twenty-seven particulars.
Chap. V. The exercise as it is to be performed by signal
or word of command from the Major,- or from any other
officer. A fke;ch of a battalion consisting of ten companies,
tnhxty-nine privates and three corporals, making in the
whole seven hundred and twenty men rankand file, drawn up
in reviewing order, .and according to seniority. Rules for tel
ling off the battalion, and for posting the officers both at ex
ercise and for action. A Sketch of a battalion formed for
action or exercise, with the ranks at the whole distance or open
order. Signals, words of command, and particular refe
rences. Rules, maxims, and observations, for the govern
ment, conduct, and discipline of an army.
To the PUBLIC.
ALL sciences have their peculiar graduates, as well to in
ftrud pupils in their rudiments, as to bring them to the higher
elements' of their profeffion ; our author has therefore alloted
to the Corporal, to the Serjeant, and to the Adjutant, their
different degrees of inftruftion, that each may be responsible
for those committed to his charge ; and by that means that the
exercise may be more correct and expeditiously learned. He
then introduces the whole exercise complete, as it is to be
performed by word of command from the Major, or any other
c mmiflioned officer, or by signal. In that part where our
author treats of the field exercise, he comprehends such opera
tions as are necessary to be performed against the enemy, as
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