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Updated: June 20, 2025
Even to-day, it is observed, in the few military exhibitions given in public, that the rank and file are lackadaisical, indifferent, undrilled, evincing a want of nearly every element of discipline, while their officers lounge along the avenues, they do not march, presenting an appearance as far from true military bearing as the greatest clown in the ranks.
'He forced Latinisms into his line, Like raw undrilled recruits, that have yet done immense service in his conflicts with the enemy. This pedantry, so inimitable, is unequaled even by the most weighty pages of the 'Pseudodoxia Epidemica' of Sir Thomas Browne. That it should prove obnoxious to some critics only testifies to its perfection and their own incapacity for enjoyment.
They were Sikhs, who formed the bulk of his headquarterless brigade, and many of them were last-minute friends, who came to him unorganized and almost utterly undrilled. But Byng was a man of genius, and his bare reputation was enough to offset much in the way of unpreparedness.
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