98 OUR INFANTRY. 



a naval than a military question, these reports 

 should commence by supposing the debark- 

 ation of a hostile army effected on certain 

 parts of our coasts, pointing out the best spots 

 between the places of debarkation and the 

 metropolis for making a succession of stands 

 against the progress of the enemy and pointing 

 out the best spots for throwing up entrench- 

 ments. 



Diagrams should not be required in these 

 reports ; when wanted, engineer officers are 

 the persons to supply them, and not the com- 

 mander of an army. 



All that is wanted in the reports here con- 

 templated is unmistakeable evidence of stra- 

 tegic genius, allied with striking good sense. 



As our coasts offer many spots calculated for 

 a debarkation, each of these would afford matter 

 for a separate report. The Commander-in- 

 Chief after receiving from the officers com- 

 manding regiments the names of their officers 

 who accepted the invitation to send in reports, 

 should appoint a time for a certain number 

 of them to proceed to the coast, allowing 

 them ten days for observation and drawing up 

 their first reports, which should, at the end of 



