EEMAEKS 



ON THE 



SETTI]^G-UP OF SOLDIEES,, 



HOESE AND FOOT, 



AND ON THE 



SUPPLING OF CAVALRY HORSES. 



INTRODUCTION. 



§ 1. Many are the expedients wHch, in the train- 

 ing of soldiers, have been and still are adopted, in 

 order to overcome that fault in the body, whatever 

 it may be, which, in nine hundred and ninety-nine 

 men out of every thousand from civilized nations, 

 tends to hinder the man from marching in a 

 straight line, from discharging his musket without 

 destroying his aim, from cutting perpendicularly 

 with the edge of his sabre, and which likewise 

 hinders him fiom so following in his own frame 

 the motions received from the frame of his horse 

 that the forces communicated by this latter shall 

 be so absorbed into and discharged with the 

 working of his own as to give no recoil from the 

 saddle. 



From the expedient of carrying "the left eye^ 



