THE MILITARY FORCES & INSTITUTIONS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND: THEIR Constitution, Administration, and Government, 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. |