Regulations for the order and discipline of the troops of the United States, : to which are added the United States militia act passed in Congress, May 1792, and the militia act of Massachusetts, passed June 22, 1793. / By Baron de Stuben, late major-general and inspector-general of the Army of the United States.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Massachusetts. Militia--Regulations.
• United States--Militia--Regulations.
• Massachusetts. Militia.
• Military art and science--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
• Military art and science.
• Military law.
• Massachusetts.
• Military law--Massachusetts.
• Military law--United States.
• United States.

Genre:

• Handbooks and manuals.

Penn Provenance:

• Rosengarten, J.G. (donor)

Physical Description:

153 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, viii folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm (12mo)

Edition:

A new edition, illustrated by eight copperplates, accurately engraved.

Place of Publication:

Printed at Boston, : [by Isaiah Thomas and E.T. Andrews] for David West, no 36, Marlborough Street, and John West, no 75, Cornhill, 1794.

Notes:

• First published in 1779; adopted for national use in 1792 by the Uniform Military Act.
• Gatherings A-N are typographically identical (except for title page) with those of the issue (Evans 27960) with imprint: Printed at Boston, by I. Thomas and E.T. Andrews, Faust's Statue, no. 45, Newbury-Street. 1794.
• Signatures: A-N6 (L3 missigned K3).
• Edition statement transposed; precedes ''By Baron de Stuben ...'' on title page.

Local Notes:

Bound with: Massachusetts. Laws fro regulating and governing the militia of the commonwealth of Massachusetts. Boston, 1803.

Cited in:

Evans 27961

OCLC:

19375885