Similar duties to those of the Sergeant in the Company were performed in the Regiment by the Sergeant-Major, who supervised the drilling of the Companies by the Sergeants, regulated the march of the Regiment and its manœuvres in battle, and was therefore charged with the issue of orders. He was thus virtually a Staff Officer to the Colonel. Similarly, in an army, the Commander required an officer of experience to draw up the army in line of battle, a difficult task, and a delicate one, as the precedence of each corps had to be respected. This officer was called the Sergeant-Major-General, as he filled for the Army the same functions as the Sergeant-Major for the Regiment. He was the Staff Officer of the Army, responsible for planning the battle manœuvres, regulating marches, arranging for the quartering of the troops, and necessarily, therefore, for issuing the orders dealing with these matters. The word _Sergeant_ was soon dropped from both these titles. The _Sergeant-Major_ became the _Major_ of the Regiment, with the duties of the modern _Adjutant_, and the _Sergeant-Major-General_ became the _Major-General_ of the Army. We thus find in the sixteenth century that the Staff work of the Army was performed by the officer known in France as _le Major-Général des Logis_, or _Major-General of Quarters_, as the allotment of quarters was one of his chief duties. It may be mentioned that the old word for Staff duties was _Logistics_, formed from the word _Logis_, and meant the duties of the Major-Général des Logis. This title was then shortened to _le Major-Général_, by which name the chief Staff officer of the Army has been always called in France down to this day. The full word was translated _Quartier-Meister-General_ in German, or _Quarter-Master-General_ in English, and this Staff Officer was charged with the Staff duties of the Sergeant-Major-General--namely: Orders, Drill, Manœuvres, Quarters. But the necessity of preceding the army to allot quarters for it entails deciding which road the army is to march by, so the duty of reconnoitring the roads, and thus that of reconnaissance generally, was added to the list of the duties of the Q.M.G. We thus find, in the eighteenth century, that what are now the duties of the General Staff were allotted to the _Quarter-Master-General_ in the British and Prussian Services, and to the _Major-Général_ in the French. These duties continued to be performed by the Q.M.G. Staff in England, down to a few years ago. In Prussia the Q.M.G. was the second officer to Moltke on the General Staff in the war of 1870, and the appointment was only abolished in 1888.