HISTORICAL NOTICES OP THE ROYAL ARTILLERY. 
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GENERAL MOORE’S INSTRUCTION TO THE EAST KENT MILITIA. 
General Orders for Officers Commanding Forts. 
“ The Forts under your command and in which your Regiment is stationed, 
“ I mean those of Dungeness, are not such as can make much resistance 
“ against a land attack. If the enemy had landed in force, it would he your 
“ duty to retire, destroying the gun carriages, and ammunition, with the 
“ implements provided for that purpose. As sea batteries, however, they are 
“ formidable, and if the guns are well served, and the previous disposition 
“ and arrangements are made with judgment, it will be impossible for an 
“ enemy to disembark within their reach. Every attention must be paid to 
“ make the men expert at the exercise of the great guns. They must be 
“ exercised twice a-day until perfect, and then always once a-day, lest they 
“ should forget it. Captain Smith has directions to visit you frequently to 
“ judge of your progress, and he will issue a proportion of ammunition for 
“ practice, when he thinks the men sufficiently forward. At these visitations 
“ you will point out to him whatever deficiencies have been observed in guns, 
“ platforms, &c., and if they are very important you will also report them to 
“ me, that they may be remedied. It is of importance to you that every part 
“ of the Batteries be in good order, as your character, and that of the Officers 
“ and men under you is materially interested in the defence you are able to 
“ make. You should directa disposition to be made at each Fort for the de- 
“ fence of the Post, and you cannot be too explicit to your Officers and men 
“ with respect to the conduct you expect from them in case of an attack. 
“ The alarm post of every Officer and man should be ascertained, the manner 
“ explained in which they are to turn out upon any alarm, the persons named 
“ who are to deliver on such an occasion the small arms, ammunition, what 
“ men are to man the guns, which to keep their muskets, the places where 
“ the muskets and packs of the men at the guns are to be placed that they 
“ may have resource to them if ordered: in short everything, however 
“ minute, which you think can occur, should have its previous instruction, 
“ that noise and confusion may be avoided in the moment of danger. The 
“ ammunition to complete your men to 2 flints and 60 rounds should be put 
“ in the possession of the Officers at the different Forts, who will keep it in 
“ the magazine of the Fort in which they are stationed, at their own disposal 
“ ready to deliver to the men when required. The proportion of camp ket- 
“ ties, bat horses, and other parts of camp equipage which have been issued 
“ should also be with the different companies, in charge of their respective 
“ Captains or Commanding Officers, so that when your companies meet, each 
“ may come with what belongs to them. The bat horses, women, &c., should 
“ be sent to the rear in case of attack. The signal of alarm is a smoke by 
“ day, a fire by night from the beacon fixed some hundred yards to your right 
“ as you look at the signal-post on Lymne Height, or from the beacon fixed 
“ on Shorncliffe Height, near the redoubt. Your sentries should have orders 
“ to observe these, though in all probability, from the officer at your own 
“ signal-post at Dungeness you will have the first notice of the approach of an 
“ enemy. Every intelligence of the approach of an enemy of which you 
“have reason to think me ignorant, you will dispatch to me by a Dragoon to 
“ Sandgate, and to the Officer Commanding at Rye, and you will of course, 
£: at the same time warn the Volunteers and Sea Fencibles at Lydd and Hew 
££ Romney. You will of course complete the companies in Forts Moncrieff 
“and Sutherland with ammunition &c., the same as those at Dungeness. If 
“ you have any for practice you will do well to divide it amongst the com- 
