Regulations for the Prussian CavalryJ. Nourse, 1757 - 408 pages |
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Regulations For The Prussian Cavalry Prussia (Kingdom) Armee,Sir William Fawcett No preview available - 2018 |
Common terms and phrases
againſt alfo alſo arms Article becauſe brifkly butt-end caft their eyes Capt Captain Carbines CHAP charge cife clofe cloſe Colonel commanding Officer gives commiffioned Officers conftantly Cornet diſtance Divifion Dragoons drefs dron Drummers enemy Enfign Exerciſe faddle falute fame fecond feize fentries fhall fhould fhoulder ficers Field-Officers files fioned Fire Firelock firft firſt fize foldiers foon front front-rank ftand faft fuch fuffered fwords garrifon gives the word ground guard himſelf horfeback horfes horſes keep Lance-Corporal left hand Lieut Lieutenant likewife main-guard Majefty manding manner motions muſt muzzle neceffary nimbly non-commiffioned Officers obferved occafion Officer muft paces patroles perfon performed Platoon pofition poft poſted Prefent quick as poffible Raiſe ranks ready rear rear-ranks refpective Reft Regiment retreating right flank begins right foot right hand right-about ſhall Squa Squadron ſtand Standard-bearers ſteady ſtep ſtrong take poft themſelves theſe thoſe Troop Trumpeters wheel whole word of command
Popular passages
Page 397 - Men muft be furnilhed with one pair of new dockings every three years, in time of peace ; and every year, in time of war...
Page 71 - With a quick motion bring up the firelock from the moulder directly before the face, and feize it with the left hand juft above the lock, fo that the little finger may reft upon the...
Page 370 - When Officers, notwithftanding all orders to the contrary, get drunk together, begin quarrels, rencounters, and duels, either in liquor, or at play, or are guilty of any other fuch like offenfive practices, they muft be put under arreft, and tried by a Court-martial, which...
Page 75 - Ihoulder, and place your left hand with a quick motion above the lock -, holding the piece right up and down in both hands before you, and your left hand even with your eyes. 3. Step...
Page 403 - REGIMENTS are conftantly to be kept in the fame good order, the whole year throughout, in which they are at their Review; it is his Majefty's...
Page 3 - Regiment complete, are never to march under arms, but when any of the men fall fick, in which cafe they muft fupply their places.
Page 370 - As it appears by daily experience that moft quarrels happen over liquor, exceflive drinking, therefore, muft be altogether prohibited amongft Officers in general ; and the Colonels and Commandants of Regiments are, in the ftricteft manner, to forbid it, and likewife to keep a watchful eye over the behaviour of their Officers in this refpe<5t.
Page 370 - Court-martial, which fhall adjudge a double degree of punifhment for every crime committed in confequence of drunkennefs; as for example, when an Officer, being fober, *is guilty of a crime, for which, according to the Articles of War, he is condemned to lofe three months pay, to be Confined a year in a fortrefs, to be cafhiered, to be...
Page 74 - Cartridge into the muzzle, make all the powder into the barrel. 2. Place your right hand clofed, with a quick and ftrong motion, upon the rammer. 13. Draw your Rammers! . . i motion. Draw out the Rammer with as quick a motion as poffible, place it above your waift-belt, and fhorten it, holding it in a line with the barrel of your Firelock. 14. Put them in the Barrels! . i motion. Pufh the Rammer down the barrel, then...
Page 323 - Every day alfo an Officer, and fometimes a Field-Officer, muft vifit the hofpital, to examine into the real ftate of every thing : the Surgeon-Major is in a particular manner required to attend the fick diligently, to give them the proper medicines regularly, and to order alfo fuch food and liquors as are moft luitable to their different diforders.