PLAN OF A NEW CORPS. ^15 



ket, most miserably and badly bored, and the 

 barrel, generally speaking, crooked both 

 inside and out. 



Riflemen, as riflemen only, are a very 

 feeble foe and not to be trusted alone any 

 distance from camp ; at the out-posts they 

 must ever be supported by regulars, or they 

 w^ill be constantly beaten in and compelled 

 to retire on the main army : but such a 

 corps as the one I have, in the foregoing 

 pages, described, can go every where alone, 

 and are able to meet every species of 

 infantry; equal to all, and very superior to 

 viany. Nay, even provided they are 

 attacked by cavalry, they can defend 

 themselves as well as any regiment of the 

 line. I have served in a German jdger 

 corps, and confess, that, in a dark rainy 

 night, we have been very disagreeably 

 and, in my opinion, very dangerously situ- 

 ated ; nothing but the most vigilant alertness 

 preserved us. 



Even when a serjeant from the out- 

 pickets reported that the dogs in the 

 neighbouring houses barked, every man 

 w^as obliged to fall in and form, and lie 



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