Together with plans and explanations of the method generally practis'd at reviews and field days, &c.
by Great Britain. Adjutant-General's Office...
Published 1773 by Printed by T. and J. Fleet, at the Heart and Crown, in Cornhill. in Boston.
Written in English.
The Manual Exercise of 1764. Probably the most famous drill manual of the period in as much as it was the drill of choice of many American units before von Steuben's Regulations and it was the established drill of the British forces in America throughout the war. We offer this work in two editions. A larger edition with two folding plates. Just another drill manual? This 'new and improved' version of the 1764 Manual draws on additional primary sources in an attempt to clarify and standardize the basic drill used by 18th-century armies during the American War for Independence.
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Just another drill manual? Far from it! 1764 Manual draws on additional primary sources in an attempt to clarify and standardize the basic drill used by 18th-century armies during the American War for Independence. The basic positions needed for priming, loading, firing and facing are clearly reproduced -- many with additional explanations. Additional material is also included for 'motions commonly practiced but not in the manual,' plus there are illustrated notes on the proper distances of ranks and files, military steps and cadences, wheeling, the oblique step and musket nomenclature.
Edition Notes
'In Provincial Congress at Cambridge, October 29, 1774. Resolved, that it be recommended to the inhabitants of this province, that in order to their prefecting [sic] themselves in the military art, they proceed in the method ordered by His Majesty ...'--p. [2]
Signed on p. 12: August, 1764. Edw. Harvey. adj. gen.
Compiled by Edward Harvey.
The Lilly Library copy bears an owner's inscription dated 1773.
Title vignette: royal arms (Reilly 895)
'Instructions for young officers. By General Wolfe.'--p. 26.
Bristol B3571.
Shipton & Mooney 42446.
Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 42446)