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Excerpt from An Elementary Treatise on Advanced-Guard, Out-Post, and Detachment Service of Troops, and the Manner of Posting and Handling Them in Presence of an Enemy: With a Historical Sketch of the Rise and Progress of Tactics, &C., &C The want of a work of this kind has long been felt among our ofiicers of Militia generally, as English military literature is quite barren in sys tematic works on most branches of the military art, especially so on the one known among the military writers of the Continent as La Petite Gumefor the manner of conducting the opera tions of small independent bodies of troops and but few of these ofiicers are able to devote that time to military studies, which their pursuit in a foreign language necessarily demands. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.