General Wolfe's Instructions to Young Officers, Also His Orders for a Battalion and an Army

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Excerpt from General Wolfe's Instructions to Young Officers, Also His Orders for a Battalion and an Army: Together With the Orders and Signals Used in Embarking and Debarking an Army, by Flat-Bottom'd Boats, &C., And a Placart to the Canadians, to Which Are Prefixed the Duty of an Adjutant, and Quarter-Master, &C, He betook himfelf very early to the profe¿ion of arms, and wrth foch talents, joined to the moft Unwearied a¿idurty, no wonder he was fingled out as a mull rifing mtlttary geniiis, mm to early as the battle of La-feldt, when (carce twenty, he exerted hirnfelt in (o ma¿erly a manner at a very critical jané'lure, that he was promoted to be a Majnr of Brtgade, and got the highell encomiums from the great officer then at the head of the army. During the whole war he went on with out tnterwption forming the mtlttaty charaaer, Was preterit at every engagement, and never paf fed utrdtfitngmfhed. Even alter the peace, whtltl: Others lolled in pleature's downy lap, he culti vated the arts of War, and introduced (without one act of inhumantty) luch regularity and exac nefs of dliclpllnc into his Corps, that as long as the fix Brittih battaltons on the plains of Mmdm are i'ftot'cled tn the annals ofhurope, to long tl Krng¿ey's ttand amongfi the foremo¿ of that day, Of that regiment he continued lteutenant Colu nel, till the great tnintfier who roufed the ¿eeptng genius of ts country called htm into htgher {pheres of ion. He was early in the moth {ecret ations for the attack of Rochfort, and what he would have done there, and what he afterward dtd at Lou fbourg, are recent tn every memory.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.