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work than food, it would prove efficient for a single horse, 

 and would completely arrest a troop when connected toge- 

 ther by their collar chains, by which arrangement a move- 

 ment, however slight, by any one horse would be restrained 

 by the vis inertise of all the rest. 



On the above suggestion being submitted by us about 

 six months ago to General Sir John Burgoyne, with the 

 vivacity and energy that distinguish him, he instantly 

 directed it to be properly tested by the mounted troop of 

 the Eoyal Engineer Train, who, as regards both bridles 

 and saddles, are equipped as cavalry. 



The result of the experiments, under the superintend- 

 ence of Colonel Henry Sandham, and the able assistance 

 of Captain Duff, R.E., has proved so eminently successful, 

 that any one visiting Aldershott is now enabled to see six 

 or eight horses hobbled at intervals of about thirty feet 

 asunder, standing motionless, while the riders of the rest 

 of the troop to which they belong, with drawn sabres flash- 

 ing in the sun, are galloping through them backwards and 

 forwards ; and as of course cavalry horses could be made 

 to do the same, it has been substantiated that that noble 

 branch of our army, as also our volunteer yeomanry, by 

 merely carrying hobbles, which only weigh two ounces 

 per pair, would at once be enabled, in addition to other 

 services, to act, whenever requisite, as mounted infantry. 



To an officer of the staff or engineers, sent to deliver 



