SCHOOL OF THE SOLDIER.

General Rules and Division of the School of the Soldier.

77. THE object of this school being the individual and progressive instruction of the
    recruits, the instructor never requires a movement to be executed until he has given an exact
    explanation of it; and he executes, himself, the movement which he commands, so as to join
    example to precept. He accustoms the recruit to take, by himself, the position which is explained
    – teaches him to rectify it only when required by his want of intelligence – and sees that all the
    movements are performed without precipitation.
78. Each movement should be understood before passing to another. After they have
    been properly executed in the order laid down in each lesson the instructor no longer confines
    himself to that order; on the contrary, he should change it, that he may judge of the intelligence
    of the men.
79. The instructor allows the men to rest at the end of each part of the lessons, and
    oftener, if he thinks proper, especially at the commencement; for this purpose he commands
    REST.
80. At the command REST, the soldier is no longer required to preserve immobility, or
    to remain in his place. If the instructor wishes merely to relieve the attention of the recruit, he
    commands, in place—REST; the soldier is then not required to preserve his immobility, but he
    always keeps one of his feet in its place.
81. When the instructor wishes to commence the instruction, he commands –
    ATTENTION; at the command, the soldier takes his position, remains motionless, and fixes his
    attention.
82. The School of the Soldier will be divided into three parts: the first, comprehending
    what ought to be taught to recruits without arms; the second, the manual of arms, the loadings
    and firings; the third, the principles of alignment, the march by the front, the different steps, the
    march by the flank, the principles of wheeling, and those of change of direction; also, long
    marches in double quick time and the run.
83. Each part will be divided into lessons, as follows:

PART FIRST.

LESSON 1. Position of the soldier without arms: Eyes right, left and front.
LESSON 2. Facings.
LESSON 3. Principles of the direct step in common and quick time.
LESSON 4. Principles of the direct step in double quick time and the run.

PART SECOND.
LESSON 1. Principles of shouldered arms.
LESSON 2. Manual of arms.

LESSON 3. To load in four times, and at will.
LESSON 4. Firings, direct, oblique, by file, and by rank.
LESSON 5. To fire and load, kneeling and lying.
LESSON 6. Bayonet exercise.

PART THIRD.

LESSON 1. Union of eight or twelve men for instruction in the principles of alignment.
LESSON 2. The direct march, the oblique march, and the different steps.
LESSON 3. The march by the flank.
LESSON 4. Principles of wheeling and change of direction.
LESSON 5. Long marches and double quick time, and the run, with arms and knapsacks.