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Allerund. Rapport!
I Anledning af D.M. allerh. Skrivelse af 5te Martz sidstl. betræffende Exerceer Reglementet, samt Capitn. Heitmanns Forslag om hans Compagnies Annexation til de regulaire Tropper, har jeg den Ære allerund. at melde:
Ved Overtagelsen af Commandoet fandt jeg Milicen exerceret efter enhver Capitains Tykke, men dog alle mere eller mindre overeensstemmende med ældre engelske Reglementer.
Det undgik ingenlunde min Opmærksomhed, at det var urimeligt at et slettere og et fremmed Reglement brugtes istedet for et bedre og vor egen Armees, men Milicevæsenet er en Sag, som aldrig kan bringes til nogen Grad af Fuldkommenhed uden at alle, simple Milice Mænd, Officerer og Høistbefalende besiæles af samme fælleds Iver og Lyst, da de Befalende ikke have de Tvangsmidler af Disciplin og daglig Orden, som blandt regulaire Tropper overvinde alle Hindringer. Saaledes som vor Milice er componeret, bestaaende af Fremmede og just af den Nation, som fremfor alle har Egenkjerlighed og Foragt for andre dybest indgroet i dens Natur, frygtede jeg for ved alt for skarpt at støde an mod deres Fordomme og Vaner, at tilintetgiøre den gode Villie som i Øieblikket var vakt hos Indbyggvaanerne for Milice Tjeneste, og saaledes istedet for at fremme at standse det Væsentlige af Værket.-
Jeg valgte da at gaae langsomt frem og begyndte med at ansætte Inspecteurer, for at bringe for det første Egalitet i Exercicen, overladende til Inspecteurerne at overeenskomme om et Interims Reglement, som da blev approberet.
Imidlertid har jeg ved at forestille saavel Fordelen af vor Exercice, som Urimeligheden eller rettere Uanstændigheden af at bruge et fremmed Reglement, efterhaanden frembragt, hos de Mænd som betyde noget i Corpserne, en Stemning, som lover mig, at jeg med Lethed og Succes skal sætte igiennem Forandringen ad Exercicen.-
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Most Humble Report!
In consequence of D.M. most humble dispatch of March 5th last concerning the Exercise Regulations, as well as Capitn. Heitmann's proposal regarding the annexation of his company to the regular troops, I have the honor most humbly to report: Upon taking over the command, I found the militia exercised according to each captain's whim, but yet all more or less in accordance with older English regulations. It by no means escaped my attention that it was unreasonable that an inferior and a foreign regulation was used instead of a better one and that of our own army, but the militia system is a matter which can never be brought to any degree of perfection without everyone, simple militia men, officers, and commanders-in-chief being animated by the same common zeal and desire, as the commanding officers do not have those means of coercion of discipline and daily order which among regular troops overcome all obstacles. As our militia is composed, consisting of foreigners and precisely of that nation which above all has self-love and contempt for others most deeply ingrained in its nature, I feared, by clashing too sharply with their prejudices and habits, to annihilate the goodwill which at the moment was awakened in the inhabitants for militia service, and thus instead of promoting to stop the essential part of the work.-
I then chose to proceed slowly and began by appointing inspectors, to bring, for the first part, equality into the exercise, leaving it to the inspectors to agree upon an interim regulation, which was then approved. Meanwhile, by presenting both the advantage of our exercise and the unreasonableness or rather the indecency of using a foreign regulation, I have gradually produced, among those men who signify something in the corps, a mood which promises me that I shall with ease and success carry through the change of the exercise.-
An extract of the Danish infan-
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