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Military Fig. 8. The same, by an eighth Wheel, by Com- 

 jTctic. ^ panics, the Flank Company only mak- 



N "^~<""*' ing an entire Wheel. 



Fig. 9- The same, by wheeling round the Centre. 



Fig. 10 & II. Forming from Line into Columns. 



Fur. 1-. Forming, or Deploying, from the Centre. 



Figs. 13, 14. A Battalion in Column marching off 

 to the Right and to the Lett. 



Fig. 15. Marching forwards in Columns. 



Fig. 16. Marching to the Rear in Columns. 



PLATE CCCLXXXII. 



Fig. 17. A Counter-march by Columns. 



Fig. 18. Columns breaking off on a narrow road, or 

 defile, without halting. 



Fig. 19- The Oblique March by Column*. 



Fig. 2O. Close Columns forming Front. 



Fig. 21. Deploying from the Centre. 



Fig 2?. The Movements reversed, the last Division 

 forming the Head. 



Fig. 23. Forming Front to the Rear by counter- 

 marching and deploying. 



Fig*. 24, 25 Close Columns forming Front to the 

 FUnk 



Figs. 26, 27, 28. Columns formed by wheeling placed 

 in order of Battle to the Front. 



PLATE CCCLXXXHI. 



Figs. 29, SO, 31, 32 33, 34. S5, 36. Column* form- 

 ing Front to the Rear. 



Fig. 37. Columns deploying close to a Defile. 



Fig. 38. Passing Obstacles, and forming Line. 



Fig. 39. The Oblique Order in Line. 



Fig. 40. The Oblique Order by Echelons. 



Fig. 41. An Army, in four Columns of March, form* 



ing Line. 

 Fig. 42. An Army attacked on its Flank, changing 



the direction of its Columns, and gaining 



the Flank of the Enemy. 



PLATE CCCLXXXIV. 

 Order of Battle at Kollin. 



PLATE CCCLXXXV. 

 Order of Battle at Rossbach. 



PLATE CCCLXXXVI. 

 Order of Battle at Leuthen. 



PLATE CCCLXXXVIL 



Lines of March, 1. At Kollin; 2. At Rossbach ; 9. 

 At Leuthen. 



Military 



Tactic*. 



Militia 

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MilUr, 

 John. 



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MILITI-A. See BRITAIN, Vol. IV. p. 689; ENO- 

 LANI., Vol. IX p. 22. 



MILK. See DAIKY. V..I VIII. p. 547. 



MILL. See BAHLLY MILL, DKLO MILL, and HY- 

 DRODYNAMICS. 



MILLAR, JOHX, Professor of law in the university 

 of Glasgow, was born on the 22d of June, 1735, in 

 the parish of Shotts, of which his father, Mr. James 

 Millar, wai then minister. His mother was a daughter of 

 Mr. Hamilton of Westburn, a gent. email of considera- 

 ble estate in Lanark-lure. He received the rudiments 

 of his education at the grammar-school of Hamilton ; 

 and, in 171'i, he repaired to the college of Glasgow, 

 where he formed an acquaintance with the celebrated 

 Mr. Watt, afterward* ot Birmingham, Dr. Adam Smith, 

 and other eminent characters. 



Mr. Millar was originally destined for the church, 

 but he afterwards resolved to devote himself to the 

 profession of the law. About the time he had finish- 

 ed his studies at Glasgow, he received an invitation 

 from Lord K.inu s to reside in his family, and superin- 

 tend the education of his son. In this situation he 

 continued about two year-. during which period he 

 had an opportunity of cultivating the acquaintance of 

 Mr. Hume, the historiari, and was entrusted with the 

 (ion of his nephew, the present very eminent 

 professor of Scotch law in the university of Edin- 

 burgh. 



In ITiiO. Mr. Millar was called to the bar; and he 

 was ocn loolt.d upon as a very riinjf young lawyer. 

 Circumstances, however, soon afterwards induied fnm 

 to abandon hi* prospects at the bar, and to solicit the 

 vacant appointment of professor ot law in the univer. 



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sity of Glasgow, which he obtained in i;Gl. About 

 the same time, he married VI Us Craig, a lady nearly 

 of his own age, to whom he had formed a strong at- 

 tachment. In the discharge of his duties as a pro- 

 fessor, Mr. Millar delivered several courses of lectures 

 in the university, on the Roman law, on the general 



principles of jurisprudence, -on government, on 



Scotch law ; to which, a few years before his death. 

 he added a course of lectures on the law of England. 

 He never wrote his lectures, but was accustomed to 

 speak from notes, containing merely his arrangement, 

 his chief topics, and some of his principal fart- and il. 

 lustrations. For the transitions from one part ol his 

 subject to another, the occasional allusions, th<: minor 

 embellishments, and the whole of the expression, he 

 trusted to that extemporaneous eloquence, which sel- 

 dom fails a speaker who is well informed and deeply 

 interested in his subject. The ability he displ.iyetl a 

 a public teacher soon attracted a numerous concourse 

 of students to his lectures, and contributed to raise 

 the character of the university, of which he was a 

 member, to a high degree of celebrity. 



On his coming to Glasgow. Professor Mill ir became 

 a member of the Literary Society, consisting chiefly of 

 proleors, together with -mne i ! r^yim n of the city 

 and neighbourhood, which had been instituted in 1752; 

 anil he immediately proved him-el!' a very active and 

 zealous promoter of its views. He continued lo t- 

 tend its meetings with a punctuality of which there 

 arc few examples, during a period ol' forty years; 

 reading discourses in his turn, and taking a lively in- 

 terest in all its discussions. Having employed him- 

 self, for some years, principally in collecting material* 



Millar, 

 John. 



