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SURVEYOR GENERALS OF THE ORDNANCE IN ENGLAND.

(To whom the Superintendance of the Artillery Proofs, Military Buildings, &c. is Entrusted.)

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THE first institution of the Royal Marines took place from it having been found necessary to embark soldiers on

board ship to co-operate with regular seamen, and men until accustomed to the sea, being in general unhealthy and consequently unserviceable, the legislature deemed it expedient to set apart certain corps for that service: these are trained to the various modes of sea-fighting, and to some of the manœuvres of ships: and to fight either in a naval engagement or in an action on shore. The precise time of its institution has not been stated by any military writer, but in 1684 the third regiment of infantry appears to have been first established as a corps of Marines : it was then styled « The Lord High Admiral of England, his Royal Highness the Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot," commanded by the Honorable Sir Charles Littleton, and called also "The Admiral Regiment." It consisted at that period of twelve companies, without grenadiers; the men were clothed in yellow coats, lined with red, their colors were a red cross, with rays of the sun issuing from each of its angles.

This corps is under the immediate control of the Admiralty, and nominally under the command of three General Officers, who are Admirals or Vice Admirals in the Navy, and four Colonels belonging to the sea service. These are at present:

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