10*2 OUR INFANTRY. 



patronage ; yes, but only to confer an ines- 

 timable benefit on their country by placing 

 early on our staff precisely the officers best 

 calculated to perform its duties. 



The next and last step should be to send 

 such of the officers, whose reports were satis- 

 factory, to Spain, under the orders of a general 

 officer, accompanied by an able artillery and 

 an able engineer officer ; the three having 

 served under the Duke of Wellington in that 

 country. 



The object of this expedition, in the first 

 instance, would be to show these officers the 

 districts which were the scenes of the Duke 

 of Wellington's campaigns. The movements 

 which had preceded every battle should be 

 carefully pointed out to these officers, and 

 should be by them as carefully considered 

 as everything afterwards connected with the 

 battles. 



It must be desirable to show young officers 

 who have had no experience in war, how our 

 armies were distributed in different fields of 

 battle, by such a general as the Duke of 

 Wellington. In the absence of such instruc- 

 tion, as well as of experience in actual warfare, 



