In addition, the Military Charter itself, consisting of 68 chapters (some chapters are divided into several paragraphs), contains the following:
1) The first 8 chapters set out the duties and purposes of various types of weapons and their divisions.
About Engineers it is said in this section (in Chapter 3) ‘the following:
“Engineers, when they join the army, usually stand close to the artillery and march with it, which is their art, so they are appointed and receive their salaries according to their merits. The order of the Engineers in the 5th army is as follows:
“Colonels, lieutenant colonels, masorkh, captain, guarantor, ensign,
1) The name of its regulations came from the fact that this charter was, according to the custom of that time, published in two languages, Russian and German, and in German it was called Kr!eo5-Keretet. At the same time, to our shame, we have to admit that this charter was written in German much more correctly and intelligently.
vn quartermaster, sergeant major, doctor, kartoral, efreyter, privates.
“When an Engineer marches, then he has a gun \) his gun, a gun 2), a pistol and a cannon, and marches in the formation as he is ordered to be by the glorious artillery, and then they turn around with her command, sometimes the engineers ‘have some ranks with the regiments that should be in the need of the occasion, and according to these decrees from the general army to send such a rank, also with the army there is a general-innover who has command over the others, and punishes on occasion, or engineers in the subcopies belong to the 5 commands of the general-quarter master 3), what kind of troops each has, it is determined there is."
The following chapters (up to HSMU) describe the army and the ranks of the general staff and everything that belongs to it. Armmies lasted for small (10,000 people) and large (100,000 people).
In any siege army, “We must follow the next highest persons”: 1) Generally, this call belonged only to crowned heads. 2) Field Marshal General or Ansheft is the commander-in-chief of the army, every command of his must be carried out. “This order is such that it is not just (that is, not only) the husband of a great man of art and courage, but also a good conduit, (that is, of any kindness) which would be connected with goodness and pious justice.”
I will cite, by the way, how he was commanded to act during the siege: “When there is a siege in the namurena, you command that he must muster shi osteraat. Also, the opz itself took vengeance, intending here to be the line of the circumvallashi kontuvallatsai and in what manner it is proper to inflict it, so on which side it is not the strongest mieto, the hell% and the packers to inflict. Be present often during the siege and watch
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2) Musket—gun; pistol—pistol.
3) The quartermaster general corresponded to the current chief of staff. His duties were mixed with the duties of engineers. Here is how it is said about him: “But this rank requires a wise, reasonable and skillful person in the field of geography and fortification, and he must establish campaigns, camps and, on occasion, fortifications and retrenchments, and have supervision over them, and especially with small troops, in which Engineers are usually found under his supervision and command.” He received all orders from the commander-in-chief of the army and was directly subordinate to him. His duties included, in addition, the choice of terrain for the deployment of troops in a bivouac, drawing up detailed schedules: “how and in what order the troops of all types of weapons should move during the campaign” and “if there are many holes, swamps and impassable waters along the way, then the Quartermaster General should take the pavement masters, diggers and carpenters with him and show them to others, “When they fix a bad road, or due to circumstances, they have to build some bridges and as soon as the army does not turn to a general engineer, then all the engineers, miners and conductors must be under his command.”
eee tear up and work.” 3) Field Marshal-Lieutenant General—assistant to the Field Marshal General. 4) Field Marshal General, also as a Cavalier General! and Infantterm 2), were the first persons after the Field Marshal General and Field Marshal Lieutenant General. The Artillery and Engineering Troops were subordinate to the Feldzeichmeister General; By the way, the charter says about it like this: