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The Infantry exercise of the United States Army / abridged for the use of the militia of the United States.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection UD161 .I5 1820
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Army. Infantry--Drill and tactics.
- United States.
- United States. Army. Infantry.
- United States--Militia--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Militia.
- Genre:
- Handbooks and manuals.
- Penn Provenance:
- Calvert P. P., Mrs. (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 156 pages, 9 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
- Edition:
- Fourth edition, corrected and improved.
- Other Title:
- Rules for the exercise of infantry.
- Place of Publication:
- Poughkeepsie [N.Y.] : Printed and published by P. Potter, for himself, and for S. Potter & Co. ... Philadelphia, 1820.
- Notes:
- Abridgement by Paraclete Potter of: Rules and regulations for the field exercise and manoeuvres of infantry / compiled and adapted to the organization of the Army of the United States, agreeably to a resolve of Congress, dated December, 1814.
- Original work compiled by a board of officers, headed by Major General Winfield Scott; published by order of the War Department.
- "In executing this task, it has been the compiler's design, to reduce Gen. Scott's work to a simple manual, for the instruction of militia men in their ordinary duty"--To the public.
- Caption title: Rules for the exercise of infantry.
- Cited in:
- Shoemaker 3759a
- OCLC:
- 15910695
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