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An Essay for Regulating and Making More Useful the Militia of This Kingdom: To Which Is Added a Scheme for the Distributing Musters and Exercise
Excerpt from An Essay for Regulating and Making More Useful the Militia of This Kingdom
Iwill not enter the Difpute, whether leffening theniimber by laying 1000 l. Per Air/mm to a Horfe, and 100 to a Foorman will anfwer the end, but in cafe it were thought fit fo to do, I prefume the molt convenient Method would be, to let the num ber of Regiments, Troops and Companies continue, as many if not more than at prefent, and reduce the number of Men in the refpeé'rive Troops or Companies only. All who'have been con verf'ahr in an Army know, that fmall Troops or Companies are eafier Difcinlin'd and Governed than large ones, and that the number of Officers is'greatl a?ifiant to the due management of any Tis well k own, the Militia Companies are many times zoo ditty Men, whereas in the Standing Army 55 was the full complement of molt Companies....
Iwill not enter the Difpute, whether leffening theniimber by laying 1000 l. Per Air/mm to a Horfe, and 100 to a Foorman will anfwer the end, but in cafe it were thought fit fo to do, I prefume the molt convenient Method would be, to let the num ber of Regiments, Troops and Companies continue, as many if not more than at prefent, and reduce the number of Men in the refpeé'rive Troops or Companies only. All who'have been con verf'ahr in an Army know, that fmall Troops or Companies are eafier Difcinlin'd and Governed than large ones, and that the number of Officers is'greatl a?ifiant to the due management of any Tis well k own, the Militia Companies are many times zoo ditty Men, whereas in the Standing Army 55 was the full complement of molt Companies....
16 pages, Paperback
Published August 24, 2018
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