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87 Inspector general. The first receives 200 dollars pay per month, and fifteen rations a day. The Brigadier general has 104 dollars a month, and twelve rations per day: the Adjutant and Inspector general has the pay and rank of a Brigadier, and six rations a day: a colonel 90 dollars a month, and six rations a day: the lieutenant colonel 75 dollars, and five rations; the major 66 dollars and four rations; the captain 50 and three rations: a sergeant has eight dollars a month, a corporal 7, and the soldier 5. This little army costs the United States more than one of treble the force would cost any power in Europe; it is badly organized, and possesses but few notions of modern tactics. The art of attack and defence of fortified places is still unknown to the Anglo-Americans, as well as that of the most important and decisive evolutions in the field. They have not yet adopted a Staff in their army, nor have they gone beyond the simple practice which they learned from the English or French, in their war of emancipation and independence.