3. the captain-general's, or field-mar-shal's, commanding the army; 4. de-tachments of the army, or out-posts;5. general officers’ guards; 6. the ordi-nary guards in camp or garrison; 7. thepicquets; 8. general courts-martial, andduties without arms or fatigue.
The follow ing general regulations ateto be observed, respecting duties ingeneral.
When field or other commissionedofficers, are given out at head-quarters,for one duly, they cannot he taken offto be put on any other duly.
No officer is allowed to exchange hisduty with another, after he has been putin orders for it, without leave of thecommanding officer of his regiment.
Guards, or detachments, which havenot marched oft from the parade, are notto be reckoned as for a duty done ;hut, if they should have marched fromthe parade, it stands for a duty done,though they should be dismissed imme-diately.
If any officer's tour of duty for theprquet, general court-martial, or dutyof fatigue, happen when he is on duty,ho shall not make good such duty whenhe comes off.
No regiment can demand a tour ofduty, unless it has marched off the placeOf parade, and beyond the main guard.
General courts-martial that have as-sembled, itnd the members sworn inshall be reckoned for a duty, thoughthey should be dismissed without tryingany person.
Whenever the piquets are ordered tomarch to any parade, it is not to be ac-counted a duty, unless they inarch off"that parade.
All commands in the regular forces,fall to the eldest officers in the same cir-cumstances, whether of cavalry or in-fantry, entire, or in parties. In casetwo commissions, of the same date, in-terfere, a retrospect is to be had toformer commissions.
Officers, on all duties under arms, areto have their swords drawn, withoutwaiting for any word of command forthat purpose.
DYKE. See Dike.
DYNASTY , ( Dynastie , Fr.) Thi*i word is frequently found in the History1 of the Monarchies and Empires of the> East; it signifies a series of princeswho have reigned successively. Whena new family succeeds to the throne, itis a new dynasty that begins. The■ house of Nassau Orange began a newj dynasty of the Kings of England in1 1688 ; and Napftleon Bonaparte bidsi fair to lay the foundation of a new! dynasty ip France .
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E AGLE. B/«c/c-Eagle , an orderof military knighthood in Prussia,instituted by, the elector of Brunden-bourg, in 1701, on his being crownedking of Prussia. The knights of thisorder wear an orange-coloured ribbon,from which is suspended a black eagle.
W’/ti/e-EAGLE , is a like order in Po-Isnd, instituted in 1325, by Uladislaus^ ■ on occasion of the marriage of hisson Casimir to thg daughter of the great<h>ke of Lithuania . The knights ofthis order wear a chain of gold, to whicha silver eagle, crowned, is suspended.
Eagle. The standard of the ancientRomans. In a general sense, it formerlyJfeaut the standard of the Korn up ar-
mies ; in a more limited acceptationthe sign or flag of the several legions.
At present it is the standard of theGerman empire.
The difference between the Romanand the Imperial eagle consists in this,that the first were eagles of gold or sil-ver, fixed at the end of a pike, havingtheir wings extended, and holding thelightning in their claws; the second areeagles painted upon the colours andstandards of the emperors. The eaglelikewise signifies, in a figurative sense,the German empire.
EARL-MARSHAL. An officer whohas the eare and direction of militarysolemnities. The dukes of Norfolk are