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of battle; some guns are also planted on the bank tocannonade the bridge : and if the enemy cover hispassage by a fire from the opposite side, a superior firemust be established. It may be remarked here, thatwhenever a bridge is to be attacked, or the passage ofit disputed, and there are guns on both sides of theriver, if the two banks be not on the fame level, thetroops on the highest bank will have the advantage,when the river is not less than a musquet ssiot across.

CHAP. VIII.

Of the Quarters of an Army.

252. It is customary to put the troops into winter quar-'ters towards the end of autumn ; and in some countries, intosummer cantonments during the great heats of that season.They are lodged in the towns and villages, and distributedaccording to the order of battle in which they are encamped .;that is to fay, the troops that compose the first line are quar-tered in the houses nearest to the enemy, and those of thesecond in the towns in the rear ; regard is also paid to theposition of the wings and centre, so that the troops may onoccasion march forward to the ground that is fixed on fortheir general rendezvous, without confusion or danger ofcrossing each other in the march. The quarters are moreor less extended in proportion to the distance between thetwo armies, and there is generally a river or defile in front.

253. The brigades of artillery are generally quarteredtogether in some city or town in the second line, with a bodyof infantry to cover them.

At every halt during the campaign, the damages wererepaired as far as circumstances would admit; and advantageis now taken of the summer cantonment:-, to examine andput every article in a complete state of repair, that on anyemergency the brigades may be instantly ready : the ammu-nition, &c. is left in the waggons, and the park formed inthe proper order, that the horses may be harnessed withoutconfusion. When the ammunition is carried on beasts ofburthen, it is unloaded and lodged in some building notexposed to sire, and spacious enough to contain it without

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