Regulations for the order and discipline of the volunteer army, of the United States of America
Subtitle: Containing, all that is requisite to be learned for a private soldier, from his admission till he is perfect for a review, with a full explanation of the manual exercise, (agreeable to Baron Stuban [i.e., Steuben]) laid down in so simple a manner, that without any other direction, a recruit can perfect himself. : To which is added, instructions for the exercise of the light horse, never before published
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 47285
Publisher: Printed by S. & J. Adams, for George Keatinge, and sold at his book-store, in Market-Street, three doors above Light-Lane
Published: 1794
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 36
Subjects: Regulations; Military art and science; Handbooks, manuals; United States. Army
Other titles: Of the instruction of recruits.
Notes: Except for the newly published cavalry drills, the work is an extract from Friedrich von Steuben's Regulations for the order and discipline of the troops of the United States, prepared by him in his office as Gen. Washington's inspector general and published by order of Congress in 1779; specifically it is all but a small part of Chapter V: Of the instruction of recruits. The cavalry drills may be from an unpublished ms. prepared by Jean Baptiste Ternant to form part of Steuben's Regulations. Cf. Riling, J.R. Baron von Steuben and his Regulations, 1966, p. 19.

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"Catalogue of books, for sale at Keatinge's book store, Market Street, 3 doors above Light Lane."--p. 32-36.

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