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Military Merit and Promotion Against a Paralyzing System
A reflective letter laments the uneven promotion path in the army from private to general, praising merit in common soldiers while criticizing officers. It imagines a Prussian scale weighing officers, argues for foreign service for promising youths, and notes militia unrest and parliamentary limits amid wartime strain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prussia
Marstal Saxe
C. Crito
Board of Enquiry
Coucil
Sea
Contes
Admiral B
Duke of M
Fort Fouras
Hosse
Ater
Glaises
Rochelle
Ife
Glacefiry
Parliament
Glocestershire
Suffolk
Chalmers
Jamaica
London
Prince Frederick
Plymouth
Nathaniel Thomas
Jesus College, Oxford
Maria Diana Romilly
Isaac Romilly
Samuel
Thomas Fludger
Dr. Davis
Trinity College
Cambridge
Trumpington
Enfield
Middlesex
Whitehalls
Mr. Smelt
Edmonton
Trinity
Davis
Portsmouth
Spithead
Admiral Holborn
Tilbury
Louisbourg
Bedford
Centurion
America
Broderick
Knowles
Hardy
Commodore Holmes
France
Torbay
Invincible
Devonshire
Nassau
Cornish
Newfoundland
Guernsey
Bristol
Graham
Halifax
Downs
James
Leith
Dunkirk
James Buchanan
University of Glasgow
John ‘Andersons
Archbishop of Canterbury
James Fanstall
Great Charte
Kent
Rochdale
Lancashire
John Belward
Ashby
Thomas Allen
John Taybeure
Gunton
Harsworth
Norfolk
Willian Harbord