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This corps shall perform all General 

 Dundas's eighteen manoeuvres, in solid 

 battalion,* shall be trained to every light 

 infantry manoeuvre, and, after a certain 

 time given to practise them, shall be 

 tolerably good marksmen, when used as 

 riflemen ; I say, tolerably good riflemen, 

 for it is not possible even for anj^ officer, 

 w^ho has served in a German jager corps ; 

 who has made it his study to enquire into 

 and to make himself acquainted, during a 

 war of seven years, with the skill and 



* I am of opinion, provided this corps was constantly 

 practised to march in line, in close order, both to slow 

 and quick time, to form columns, and from columns to 

 form the line, that it would be sufficient ; those 

 manoeuvres being the most essential to a regular bat- 

 talion in the day of battle : at all other times they 

 should be drawn up as light infantry, and should 

 never be placed in the line of battle in close order, 

 excepting when real necessity requires it, from a want 

 of a sufficient number of regular battalions; on the 

 contrary, they should ever be employed on the flanks of 

 the army. The officer commanding such a corps, pro- 

 vided he had seen much active service, before the 

 enemy, should have great latitude given him, to act 

 according to his own judgment, as circumstances might 

 point out to hiai in the day of battle. 



