Rangers Standing Orders

1. Don't forget nothing.
2. Have your musket clean as a whistle, hatchet scoured, sixty rounds powder and ball, and be ready to march at a minute's warning.
3. When you're on the march, act the way you would if you was sneaking up on a deer. See the enemy first.
4. Tell the truth about what you see and what you do. There is an army depending on us for correct information. You can lie all you please when you tell other folks about the Rangers, but don't never lie to a Ranger or officer.
5. Don't never take a chance you don't have to.
6. When we're on the march we march single file, far enough apart so one shot can't go through two men.
7. If we strike swamps, or soft ground, we spread out abreast, so it's hard to track us.
8. When we march, we keep moving till dark, so as to give the enemy the least possible chance at us.
9. When we camp, half the party stays awake while the other half sleeps.
10. If we take prisoners, we keep'em separate till we have had time to examine them, so they can't cook up a story between 'em.
11. Don't ever march home the same way. Take a different route so you won't be ambushed.
12. No matter whether we travel in big parties or little ones, each party has to keep a scout 20 yards ahead, 20 yards on each flank, and 20 yards in the rear so the main body can't be surprised and wiped out.
13. Every night you'll be told where to meet if surrounded by a superior force.
14. Don't sit down to eat without posting sentries.
15. Don't sleep beyond dawn. Dawn's when the French and Indians attack.
16. Don't cross a river by a regular ford.
17. If somebody's trailing you, make a circle, come back onto your own tracks, and ambush the folks that aim to ambush you.
18. Don't stand up when the enemy's coming against you. Kneel down, lie down, hide behind a tree.
19. Let the enemy come till he's almost close enough to touch, then let him have it and jump out and finish him up with your hatchet.

<< Previous Word Browser Next >>
eloi simurgh on the fly hms sirius michael hegstrand list of non endemic ant species introduced to great britain and ireland ludovit stur kerry nettle list of the most popular names in the 1900s in the united states list of the most popular names in the 1910s in the united states list of the most popular names in the 1920s in the united states	list of the most popular names in the 1930s in the united states list of the most popular names in the 1940s in the united states list of the most popular names in the 1950s in the united states list of the most popular names in the 1960s in the united states stand on zanzibar asian tiger mosquito majority owner avni arbas representation hugo award for best novel list of ant genera (alphabetical)	ay william walker (soldier) aedes scott walker 1904 in science bacillus thuringiensis israelensis ronald n. bracewell william grover williams nirvana (leafhopper) crisis management lloyd allan trigg	jam sandwich anthrax (fly) john flansburgh formosa magazine kabar rusty young the dark crystal simon proctor applelink personalbrain van der pauw method