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The military instructor, for the non-commissioned officers and private men of the infantry; Containing every thing necessary to be understood by the independent companies of volunteers now raised, or raising, in Great-Britain and Ireland: such as the manual exercise, use of arms, manuvres, &c. &c. By Thomas Simes, Esq. late of the Queen's Royal Regiment of Foot, and author of The military guide, &c.
Simes, Thomas, active 1757-1780.Date: M,DCC,LXXIX. [1779]- Books
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By His Majesty's command. The manual and platoon exercises.
Great Britain. Army.Date: 1795- Books
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A Complete system of the military art, explaining and describing, the technical terms, works and machines, used in the science of war. With an introduction to fortification. Compiled from the best writes on military affairs, viz. Puysequar, Folard, M. Santacruz, Peuquierres, Turpin, M. De Saxe, Desaguliers, Turenne, Vauban, &c. &c. The military treatise of Lewis Lochee, master of the Military Academy, Little Chelses, Captain George Smith, inspector of the Roayl Military Academy at Woolwich; and T. Simes, author of the Military guide &c. &c. and governor of the Hibernian Society for the Orphans and Children of Soldiers. Containing every particulr of military knowledge essential to a practical use of arms, and effective service.
Date: M,DCC.LXXX. [1780]- Books
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The elements of military arrangement; Comprehending the tactick, exercise, manoevres, and discipline of the British infantry; together with the late field regulations and manœvres, ordered by General Lord Amherst, for the regiments of foot and militia, and an appendix, containing the substance of the principal standing orders for the army.
Williamson, John, 1751?-1801.Date: MDCCLXXXII. [1782]- Books
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A system of camp-discipline, military honours garrison-duty, adjutants-duty, and other regulations for the land forces. Collected by a gentleman of the army. In which are included Kane's Discipline for a battalion in action. With a Map of the Seat of War, Lines and Plans of Battles, and above Sixty Military Schemes, finely engraved from the Originals of the most eminent Generals, &c. To which is added General Kane's Campaigns of King William and the Duke of Marlborough, Improved from the late Earl of Crauford's and Colonel Dunbar's Copies, taken from Gen. Kane's own Writing. With His Remarks on the several Stratagems by which every Battle was won or lost, from 1689 to 1712. The second edition. Continued from the Restoration, where our Standing Army commences, in a Series of Historical and Cronological Facts of the Military and Naval Transactions of Great Britain; being a concise History (to supply the Scenes of Action in which the General was not engaged) to 1760. By an impartial hand.
Impartial hand.Date: [1760]