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though of long standing in the service, could 

 not put their regiments through a common 

 field-day without the continual aid of the adju- 

 tants. Had this occurred in battle the result 

 would have been serious. Such officers should 

 have been dismissed, or made to learn their 

 duty. 



A thoroughly well instructed, and well 

 mounted cavalry regiment, may be compared 

 to a fine frigate with a highly disciplined crew. 



A cavalry officer in the command of a regi- 

 ment may on service greatly distinguish him- 

 self, as may a captain in command only of a 

 squadron when this happens to be detached. 



There are still men in our Household Cavalry 

 much too heavy for service. The horses re- 

 quired to carry them are necessarily too low- 

 bred and too slow. They are, in consequence, 

 when in a column on its march, like to slow 

 sailing ships, which delay the progress of a 

 whole fleet. The speed of a cavalry regiment 

 is in all its movements diminished, by the slow 

 horses which cany the heaviest men. These 



