704 Account of Regulations 



service in general, have already really experienced the 

 advantages of the military system recently introduced. 

 The true greatness and importance of the advantages 

 of this system cannot, however, be fully visible until 

 the difficulties of introducing the same have been over- 

 come, all old prejudices rooted out, opposition brought 

 to silence, and the whole matter started in its regular 

 course. 



As to the advantages which the troops themselves 

 have obtained as a result of the introduction of the new 

 military system, it is to be remarked that the whole 

 army — staff officers and officers of tlie line, as well as 

 the common soldiers — have experienced a marked im- 

 provement in their wages, pay, or subsistence. 



The common soldier of the infantry now receives 

 five kreutzers a day instead of four and a half kreutzers, 

 together with a portion of bread ; and instead of re- 

 ceiving a coat, vest, and pair of breeches every three 

 years, together with three florins a year for procuring 

 and keeping in repair his small equipment {kleine Mo7i- 

 tur\ he now is sufficiently, and without expense to 

 him, provided with every article of clothing, and with 

 whatever is necessary for presenting a neat appearance. 



It may be asserted that no soldier in all Europe is 

 better clothed than he who now serves in the army of 

 your Electoral Highness, and there is certainly no 

 military force where the service is more agreeable or 

 more advantageous to the common soldier. 



The recruit receives immediately on his enlistment 

 one helmet, one pair epaulettes, one cap {Holzmiitze), 

 one coat, one overcoat, one under-vest (Unterleidel), one 

 pair gray breeches with black gaiters, three shirts, two 

 pairs of shoes, one working blouse, one pair overalls, 



