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GUARDS. 
Officers and er officers—to your guards 
—March !|—Halt !—Fro 
. * Olfcen and Pucca officers, infpeé&t your 
ards ! 
. The fipcitt officers and non-commifiioned officers will 
then infpect their guards, as quick as poffible. When 
there is a captain’s guard, each officer is to take a rank, 
the ferjeants accompanying t 
fob as the infpection is over, the adjutant will go 
down the line and receive the report of each guard; the 
officers return to their pofts ; and the major, or commanding 
then— 
“ Order arms !——Fix bayonets !—and Shoulder !”” 
When the colours are brought on the parade, the troop 
is beat ; and the drummer’s cail on the right. 
The captain will face inwards, and the Jeutenant and 
aptain goes to the head of 
«Phe field officer then orders 
ick 
ufual. And the grenadiers, on their arrival on the left 
flank of the guards, will file at oe ordina. ary time, —S 
the ranks ; the lieutenant, and the colours, in front of the 
front ran e guards are to march off at the ordinary 
time, and by divifions, nF care, that when they Open 
ranks, the front — 0 
f being in the rear of it. When there is an ee fenior 
tothe field officer of the day, on the parade, the guards are 
to march by and falute him: the field officer of the day, in of 
ey rptenn. - their head. 
if line. "in that cafe, they are ini ae the direction 
ing near their pofts. No guards a fais 
& ftop any perfons comi - oc re ‘roviiony (oles 
pe fe eneny Gedeved fo to do), an ac- 
to exact or receive any thing for = fan's ! 
officer, trumpeter, or other on, who comes 
Y aie, to his own poft, will forward 
uarters 
The oo outpofts are always to be double. 
eee bee as or ee an. are on any 
rite be fuffered to pafs the sai pORe unlefs they 
mye pret — pafs from head-quarters. 
iri ‘ings. intelli- to. Ind lentl therefore, of the means which he ado adopts. 
after enguiring whether he brings any intelli for ~ iat Gor of his pofts, he muft look. 
yond acd cay Sere nothing checks the ardour of 
troops more than unexpected obitacle, within a ! 
yards, a eh, of the place attacked, he ‘mutt, on his 
The men on advanced pieqnets are to carry vie 
fions with them, ready co Digna when erry the pr wil 
permit. The cavalry to carry fufficient forage for the time 
ee! are -? be out. 
e duty of officers on all guards to nit ay every 
relief s fentiane both when they go on, and come off their 
poits ; to call the rolls frequently, ' and by eve ibe means in 
their power to keep the men under their command in the * 
mott perfect itate of vigilance and preparation. 
Officers comman ing outpofts are to fend guides, or 
orderly men, to the major of brigade of the day, or to th 
rigade- -major of their own brigades, as circumftances re. 
uire, in order to conduct the new guards, and to carry 
{uch orders as may be neceflary. 
the army is on a march, the officers muft apprize 
the belgie mejor of the ftuation of their pofts, as foon as 
they arrive at them. achments of brigades, which: 
are ordered to march scetaah. are to be taken from the 
picquets, and replaced directly from the line 
detachments. Detachments ote cavalry, of so or oe, 
will be attended by a farri 
n as an officer c cineiiy an Gutpoft, or advanced’ 
picquet, gods of snd or infantry,) arrives on his 
und, he mult endeavour to make himfelf mafter of his: 
fituation, by sascha examining, not only the fpace he 
actually occupies, but the heights within mufket-fhot ; t 
He will, by tliefa means, . e enab an e ‘take 
wa SY to prevent the ema d of eg Bow 
fhould he be attacked during the night, the se ood 
knowledge he has obtained of the ground, he will at once 
form a jult eftimate of the nature of the attack, and 
. his arrangements for defence with promptitude and Mecca: 
In order to convey the fame alacrity to his men, and to pre~ 
pare the moft unexperienced for fudden and unexpeéted at- 
tacks, an officer upon an outpoit will do well to put them: 
upon he’ alert, by {kilfully occationing falfe alarms. a 
efe muft not be often repeated, nor when 
own to his men as having proceeded from hinfelfs 
fince Fapscatats and inactivity might by degrees:be the cone 
feqnences of fuch a difcovery. 
An intelligent ae upon an outpoft, even unprovided: 
with entrenching tools, will materially flrengthen his poft,. 
beep pias ver wo pase peng inactive. A tr oc felledk 
ut to 
d judgment ; brufhwood c a certain po Bea 
Sea takes, about breaft high, placed on the points mott 
ailab. ttended with the greateit 
ce, 
