The writings of George Washington; being his correspondence, addresses, messages, and other papers, official and private, selected and published from the original manuscripts; with a life of the author, notes and illustrations. By Jared Sparks.

PART I.] THE FRENCH WAR. 315
the right, which belong to the second division, are immediately to extend to the right, followed by that division, and to form, as described in the aforesaid plan.
The rear-guard division is to follow the left flankers in
the same manner, in order, if possible, to encompass the
enemy, which being a practice different from any thing
they have ever yet experienced from us, I think may be
accomplished. Such Indians as we have, should be
ordered to get round, unperceived, and fall at the same
time upon the enemy's rear. The front and rear being
thus secured, a body of two thousand five hundred men
remains to form two brigades, on the flanks of which
six hundred men must march for their safety, and in
such order as to form a rank entire, by only marching
the captains' and subalterns' guards into the intervals
between the sergeants' parties. The main body will
now be reduced to nineteen hundred men, who should
be kept as a corps de reserve to support any part, that
shall be found weak or forced.
The whole is submitted with the utmost candor, by
Sir, &c.
TO GOVERNOR FAUQUIER.
Camp, at Loyal Hanna, 30 October, 1758. I
SIR,
I am sorry to inform you, that, upon reviewing the
six companies of my regiment at this place, which had
been separated from me since my last, I found them deficient in the necessaries contained in the enclosed
return. I am, therefore, under the duty of providing for
them, or more properly of endeavouring to do it, as I
" Colonel Washington had now been sent forward, in advance of the
main army, to take command of a division employed in opening the road.