The British Commissary, in Two Parts: A System for the British Commissariat on Foreign Service; An Essay Towards Ascertaining the Use and Duties of a Commissariat Staff in England (Classic Reprint)

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With a view to remedy thefeinconveniencies, to pro cure to the Armies a more regular fupply when on Ser vice, and to the Country a greater fecurity for the due expenditure of its treafures, it was judged defirable by men Of high military charaficr, that a mode of con dufling the Commill'ary General's department, which had been approved Of in praelice, fhould be committed to writing while freih in the memory; and accordingly the following fyflem was written in the year 1796, after the return of the Army from the Continent; the writer having ferved from July 1793 in Flanders and Holland, provided for the foreign Troops, compofing the left wing, on its retreat from thence, and afterwards, for.

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