The grafs guard must confift of three reliefs, exclufive of the Non-commiffioned Officer and Farrier Major, who of courfe take no turn of duty, as they are always supposed to be about amongst the horfes... The number of the guard muft depend upon what number may be requifite to watch the horfes at one time. When the horses are turned out, or taken up, one man muft go to two horfes, exclufive of Serjeants and Farriers, and a fufficient number of Trumpeters to found the duties on the march; and the horfes must always be walked quite quietly along, of courfe in the fnaffles, collars, and cloths. The collars must be left in charge of the Quarter Mafter; and as they are all marked according to the Troop they belong to, they cannot be confused. 1 For five or fix days before they are turned out, the horses muft not be dreffed, and they must be kept quite cool: they muft alfo be kept quite cool upon firft being taken up. Great care must be taken that no horfe is hot when turned out. The grafs guard are to have with them the fame cloathing that the Regiment has in wear, and their fwords and fwordbelts, but all their other arms and accoutrements must be taken into flore; of courfe they are to have their horse-cloths, fnaffles, and collars, ftable-dreffes, and all regimental neceffaries, of which the Non-commiffioned Officer commanding the grafs guard must have an exact inventory. They mu march in their caps and ftable-dreffes-dreffed, in fhort, like the rest of the men who are taking the horses to grafs. BAGGAGE. BAGGAGE. THE Quarter Mafters will attend to the packing up of every thing lodged in ftore before a march. Great care ́ is neceffary in this particular. They will alío fee that the baggage is properly loaded, that the arms are packed in the arm cheft, and that the accoutrements of every kind that go in the waggon are wrapped up in matting, or fome other covering, for their prefervation. Each Troop therefore is to be provided with what is neceffary for this purpofe, and the Quarter Masters are to be anfwerable for the good condition of the Baggage. A Corporal and one man per Troop on foot is in general fufficient for the Baggage Guard. The Baggage Guard is always to march with their arms, and the men muft keep to their respective waggons, and not ride, or put their arms in the waggon. The fick only are entitled to ride on the waggons-Any Non-commiffioned Officer obliging a waggoner to carry women or other people against his will, or refufing to order them down when defired, is liable to a penalty of five pounds by the Articles of War, and no waggoner is to be ill-ufed; but if the waggoner chufes to allow the women to go on the waggon, of course they may. The Baggage is to march so as to arrive in Quarters, if poffible, before mid-day, and to be loaded in general in the evening, in the fummer, after evening ftable; when the days are fhort, at four or five o'clock, and delivered then into the charge of the Baggage Guard, No No woman on the Baggage is to presume to wear a Dra goon's cloak; a Non-commiflioned Officer permitting it will be reduced to the ranks, unless she is unwell, in which cafe one or two of the old cloaks may be given to her for the march. Soldiers are not permitted to have too much unneceffary Baggage: it will therefore be occafionally examined, and what is useless thrown away. Nothing fuperfluous or improper is ever to be carried on horfeback; in fhort, nothing but the exact regimental neceffaries. No Baggage to be received on a waggon that is not marked with the perfon's name to whom it belongs. The Non-commiffioned Officer of the Baggage Guard must always have a route, which he delivers to the Noncommiffioned Officer who relieves him. A fentry of the old Baggage Guard always remains over the Baggage, if neceffary, being relieved every two hours, till it is loaded for the next day's march. At this loading the new Baggage Guard parades, and the Corporal receives the route-After it is loaded, a fentry of the new Guard is pofted over it if neceffary, being relieved every two hours; and the whole Guard affembles half an hour before the time ordered for it to march. The Guard must be uniformly and neatly dreffed, with black leggins, hats;in fhort, exactly as when under arms on foot, ON ON A MARCH. THERE is no part of the fervice more material than the good order and regularity of a march; it requires an attention and knowledge (but that not difficult) both in Officer and Soldier, which is most effential to the welfare of the horfe. One Regiment will with ease perform a long march, when another, conducted in a carelefs and unfoldier-like manner, will arrive in their Quarters ftraggling, fatigued, and unfit for any service-It foon fhews a most striking difference between Regiments, as to strength and fitness for duties of all kinds; and, in the courfe of a campaign, more Regiments are ruined from an inattention to this article, than from any other circumstance whatever. It is the principal criterion of well-difciplined Soldiers, and intelligent Officers. When the Dragoon is to turn out on horfeback for a march-After dreffing his horfe and himself, he is to fee that every article of his equipment is ready and in good + order, and that his neceffaries are properly packed up for the march. When the trumpets blow "to boots and faddles,” he is to put on his boots, carry down his faddle and arms, &c. to the ftable; and faddle, but not gird up tight till a fhort time before turning out. A quarter of an hour before "to horfe for Squad parade" blows, he will turn his horfe round, and, after rubbing him down, will bridle, comb mane and tail, put on cloak and arms, and wait the fignal for turning out. The Troops, after being infpected at their several parades, will affemble at the general one, and be there formed and told off, exactly as if going to a field-day. The The ftandards will then be fent for (or brought by fuck Troops as parade near Head Quarters), and received with the proper compliments. A Non-commiffioned Officer per Troop will be fent forward for Quarters; the Quarter Masters are more effentially employed, and will in general remain with their Troops, excepting one to each Squadron, when a Squadron marches together; and alfo when marching into the fettled Quarter, on which occafion all the Quarter Masters must go forward to arrange the Cantonments. They may also be allowed to go on after the Regiment has marched, if it fhall feem neceffary, fo as to examine and fettle the Quarters before the arrival of the Troop. Led horfes will always march, in time of peace, in the front of the Regiment, under the conduct of a Non-commiffioned Officer. They will carry their faddles with the ftraps all neatly done up, and bridles, but of course no arms. They may fet out when neceffary, viz. in the case of lame horfes, fome time before the Regiment, but never after it. The Regiment will march by divifions or files, as the roads allow; but in England the general march, on common marches, must be by files. Officers will always remain in front or on the flanks of their respective Troops, to fee that an equal pace is every where kept, and that the distances of ranks and files are obferved; that every man is attentive to his horse, and has him properly in hand; that no man fleeps, or fits in a lounging careless manner, as nothing fooner fatigues and hurts the horfe's back. No file must ever be allowed to hang back, or lose his distance, because it caufes all the rear to fhuffe and trot. A halt for a few minutes will always be made every five or fix miles, when the Dragoons will have an opportunity to dif mount; therefore, on the march no man is on any pretence to stop or quit his rank without the most urgent neceffity, and |