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Ensign — Hector McKay, transferred to Captain Stephenson's 

 •Company. 



Sergeant— Jacob Jones, in hospital, Philadelphia. 

 Sergeant — Stephen Jarvis, in hospital, Philadelphia. 

 Sergeant — James King. 

 Corporal — Andrew Curties. 

 Corporal — John Galloway. 

 Corporal — Joseph Dunahow. 



Of the commissioned officers in the above list who survived the war^ 

 Captains Saunders, Armstrong, Mackay, McCrea, Agnew and Kerr, came 

 to New Brunswick at the peace, as did Lieutenants Whitlock, Ormond 

 and McNab, Ensign Dunlop, and the great majority of the non-com- 

 missioned officers and privates, who were left at the surrender of Corn- 

 wallis. 



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When Simcoe took command of the Queen's Rangers in October, 

 1777, he at once proceeded to organize them for that active kind of war- 

 fare in which they afterwards became so famous. Their strength at 

 various periods and their composition have already been referred to; it 

 now only remains to describe their system of drill and the tactics they 

 employed. " A light corps," as Simcoe observes, " augmented as that of 

 the Queen's Eangers was and employed on the duties of an outpost had 

 no opportunity of being instructed in the general discipline of the army, 

 nor indeed was it very necessary; the most important duties, those of 

 vigilance, activity and patience of fatigue, were best learned in the field ; 

 a few motions of the manual exercise were thought sufficient ; they were 

 carefully instructed in those of firing, but above all attention was paid 

 to inculcate the use of the bayonet and a total reliance on that weapon. 

 The division's being fully officered and weak in numbers was of the 

 greatest utility, and in many situations was the preservation of the corps. 

 Two files in the centre and two on each flank were directed to be com- 

 posed of trained soldiers, without regard to their size or appearance. It 

 was explained that no rotation, except in ordinary duties, should take 

 place among light troops, but that those officers would be selected for 

 any service, who appeared to be most capable of executing it. It was 

 also enforced by example, that no service was to be measured by the 

 numbers employed upon it, but by its own importance, and that five 

 men, in critical situations or emploAinent, was a more honorable com- 



