Excerpt from A Plan for Establishing and Disciplining a National Militia in Great Britain, Ireland, and in All the British Dominions of America: To Which Is Added an Appendix, Containing Proposals for Improving the Maritime Power of Great-Britain IT is indeed an old maxim, that riches are the finews of war but this is true in no other fenfe, except for the maintenance and pay of armies, when in the field, and in foreign countries in other refpee'ts the apothegm 9? 1s falfe for money cannot make good foldiers. Princes who rely upon their treafure as. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.