Illustration to verses printed beneath the (printed) title.  Lt.-General David Dundas stands (right) in profile to the left drilling a file of foot-soldiers on an open heath. These are stepping backwards up a slight incline and all but the four men nearest the spectator have fallen, or are falling, on their backs. Dundas holds the tip of his drawn sword with his left hand. A pyramid in the distance is inscribed 'Lexden', and the verses show that the incident depicted took place at manoeuvres on Lexden Heath. The verses are to the tune of "When the Fancy-stirring Bowl". The first and last are:
<p><br><br>'This Object is a wondrous Thing, 
<br>In common Sense's Spite, Sir; 
<br>He'll wheel you thro' the Gordian Ring,
<br>But never make you fight, Sir. 
<br>On Pivot-points he'll bid you move, 
<br>Right, left, and right about them, 
<br>Whilst all his Circles only prove 
<br>That we might do without them. 
<br>Now backward wheel, . . .
<br><br>A Porcupine and Oblong Square
<br>By Echellon surprize, Sir; 
<br>To take alignement here and there,
<br>Is likewise very wise, Sir; 
<br>But when, to guard the Common Weal,
<br>Our Soldiers pull their Triggers, 
<br>One Charge, in Line, with British Steel,
<br>Is worth Ten Thousand Figures.
<br>Then while you wheel, . . .'  28 June 1797
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<br>Hand-coloured etching with letterpress
1797<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1797-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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