RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE FORMATIONS, FIELD-EXERCISE AND MOVEMENTS OF HIS MAJESTY’S FORCES (1792) - Softcover

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Official War Office manual setting out a ‘uniform system of field-exercise and movement, founded on just and true principles’ introduced for the British army in 1792, a time of mounting alarm at the'French revolution that was about to plunge Europe into two decades of war. The book covers the entire gamut of military manoevres from platoon upwards - including the formation of the famous British squares- and is an invaluable addition to the library of any enthusiast of 18th or 18th century warfarfe, as well as to re-enactors and war-gamers. The detailed text is accompanied by endpaper diagrams of the manoevres described.

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