Basil Jackson Treatise on Military Surveying

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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. A war corps, organized and armed as a body Of infantry, but trained to the duties of Field-engineering. The Officers were mounted, and expected to perform the services of the Quarter master-general's Department - the Field-officers making as As sistants, and the Captains and Subaltems as deputy-assistants receiving, when in the field, forage and other allowances accord ing to their staff-rank. The qualification for an Officer was a military education, and four-fifths of the soldiers were mechanics. This corps was not broken up until many years after the termina tion of the late war, its services having been made available in the colonies.