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THE

MILITARY FORCES AND INSTITUTIONS

OF

GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.

THE

MILITARY FORCES & INSTITUTIONS

OF

GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND:

THEIR

Constitution, Administration, and Government,
Military and Civil.

AUTHOR OF

BY

H. BYERLEY THOMSON, Esq.,

OF THE INNER TEMPLE,

THE LAWS OF WAR AFFECTING COMMERCE AND SHIPPING."

LONDON:

SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 65, CORNHILL.

1855.

£31. 0.22.

PREFACE.

In the present work, the Author has made it his object to present a comprehensive and accurate, though necessarily general, account of all matters relating to the Military and Civil Constitution, Administration and Government of the Military Services of Great Britain; and also of the Laws relating to the Army, the Marines, the Militia, and the various corps of Volunteers. His aim has been, also, to perform this task in such a manner as to render the book interesting to the general reader, as well as useful to the military officer.

More than thirty years ago, an intelligent officer* of the Artillery of France produced the first work, and up to the present time the only one, descriptive of the Military Forces of Great Britain; then holding, by right of their recent victories in the

* M. le Baron Charles Dupin.

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