A compendium of military duty
Subtitle: adapted for the militia of the United States, in three parts ... the whole carefully collated from the Count Saxe, the Chevalier de Valiere, M. Lamont, the Baron Stuben, and other eminent characters
By: by Jonathan Rawson, Esq. late aid de camp to General Sullivan.
Contributors: American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
Edition: The first edition.
Publisher: By Eliphalet Ladd, for the subscribers and to be sold in Boston by David West and Ebenzer Larkin, Jr., also, by the printer, at his office ...
Published: 1793
Place of publication: Printed at Dover (N.H.)
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
Subjects: United States -- Militia -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; United States -- Militia -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Early works to 1800.
Notes: Evans 26054
Signatures: [A-B]⁴ C-U⁴ W⁴ X-2N⁴.
Pages 38, 237, and 302 misnumbered; pages [241]-[295] incorrectly numbered 251-305.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: (from t.p.) Part I. The duty of soldiers in general, non-commissioned, commissioned, field and general officers, with instructions for the conduct of each, both in the militia & in actual service; title: Part II. The manoeuvres and evolutions of the infantry, artillery and cavalry, upon the plan laid down for the army of the United States, upon the Prussian system; title: Part III. Some particular instructions to officers of partizan corps, interspersed with historical facts, anecdotes, &c., together with the manoeuvres of armies.