23. After correcting all this, when there is no work for the pontoon teams, then the available Obers and non-commissioned officers and corporals are used in line with their other brothers Artillery ranks on guard duty and for occasional work, and the craftsmen for other Artillery corrections.
24. Nowadays, it is necessary to contain tin pontoons from the residual amount of Artillery! and pontoon or any other amount in three places, each with 10 pontoons for practice, so that the local pontoons cannot become thin from exercise.
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To our General FR Reltzeimister Count Shuvalov ').
In your report dated the 27th month of the past month, we were pleased to see your enclosed works on the engineering regiment, which position it can be sent to in the army, for which reason we order the engineer Major General Muravyov 1nstruksha to send it to him immediately: with which our General Field Marshal Count Shuvalov was informed of the exact order during the rescript, We remain with you with imperial favor! Given in St. Petersburg on May 6, 1760. |
By Decree of Her | Imperial Majesty, Autocrat of All Russia | Ave. 1 Ave. 1 Ave.
INSTRUCTIONS.
From General Feltzeimister Senator Her Imperial Majesty. Adjutant General of the Active Chambers of the Ger of the Leib-Kampanmi of the Second Lieutenant of the State Surveyor and the Orders of the Apostle Andrew the White Eagle of St. Alexander Nevsky 1 St. Anne of the Cavalier Count Shuvalov, who is with the army, Mr. Engineer General Major Muravyov.
“I read too much about the engineering art of which Your Excellency is quite knowledgeable, give instructions, but due to the fact that the engineering regiment has never been used before, then on what basis in the company! and the performance of field work also | In attacks of extremes 1 use it with full advantage; therefore, the only instruction must be made, and for this I recommend that you follow the following”:
1) Formerly Art. Exp. according to Eng. Povytya 1760 No. 25. Note: in the given copP1i instructions, omissions are left in some mfsts, which means that the word is not clear. This manual is written in an extremely illegible manner.
“Elected guards and non-commissioned officers of the 1st observation corps. each craft, to be drawn into four companies and the fifth 1 should consist of 13 miners, half of the senior and half of the junior salary; those in the command of Your Excellency, the staff and chief engineering officers, how many of these are required for the first time in the engineering regiment, to determine which ranks in the state will not be enough, then it is enough to replace the 13 lower officers who are in the army!
According to the list of red squadrons and the appointment of officers in them, you first of all want to divide all the companies into equal parts and satisfy them with an equal number of craftsmen, so that in case of need, each 1mela of every kind of artist or when you please: so that each company consists of one craft. people, given the knowledge and circumstances of your Excellency’s presence in the army. In your opinion and what kind of blog you choose to fulfill, please notify me immediately.
Separating them into groups, the elder showed them one by one how to weave tours and trench-korbs, knit fascines, different measures.
To show others how the batteries and other merlons and embrasures are being built, especially with the newly invented artillery, and how the quality of the land 1sder, fascines, wicker and boards is quickly torn off 1 how to give them coolness, and at the same time teach them, so that they themselves know that the height and thickness of the parapet is closed with every field: how a soldier is covered by it there should be, and as a banquet method you can shoot through a height, and therefore it is possible to say which ground is better to use in the parapet, so that friendly shots from the broken earth do not cause more harm than the cannonballs themselves could not cause.
The third part is to teach about the performance of attack work: 1) in the trenches, as a precaution they are torn off and continued to parallel lines. 2) Work on parallel lines, and, moreover, let you know what the difference is in the work done on both trench and parallel lines.