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Excerpt from A Military Dictionary, or Explanation of the Several Systems of Discipline of Different Kinds of Troops, Infantry, Artillery, and Cavalry: The Principles of Fortification, and All the Modern Improvements in the Science of Tactics; Comprising the Pocket Gunner, or Little Bombardier, the Military Regulations of the United States, the Weights, Measures, and Monies of All Nations
In the modern wars of the French revolution, the like truths have been demonstrated as in the American contest. The British armies had been merely taught the duties of parade, and when they came into the field, had to learn by hard fighting and severe defeats, that their officers were generally ignorant of the art of war for they were beaten once more by raw troops ably conducted to the field by experienced officers, who possessed skill, who had made military science their study; and, above all, who knew how to take advantage of thel incompetency of the British leaders.
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