 Complete the following phrase:  Manners joined the Army as a cornet in the 3rd Dragoon Guards on 27 April 1775, and was promoted to lieutet on 25 December 1778. On 3 October 1779 he became captain of a company in the 86th Foot, newly raised by his cousin the Duke of Rutland. He went with the 86th Foot to the West Indies, serving for a time on marine duty aboard ship before being sent with a detachment to Tobago. In 1781 the island 