the training of soldiers, and the due enforcement of the laws and regulations instituted by authority for securing obedience and repressing all disorderly habits or tendencies. Next to the forming of troops, military discipline is an object of the first importance. It is the soul of all armies; and, unless it be established with great prudence, supported with unshaken resolution, and enforced with rigour tempered by judgment, an army is no better than an armed mob, and is more formidable to the state that maintains it than dangerous to its declared enemies.