or,
Explanation of the several systems of discipline of different kinds of troops,
Infantry, Artillery, and Cavalry;
The principles of fortification,
and
All the Modern Improvements in the
Science of Tactics:
comprising
The Pocket Gunner, or Little Bombardier;
The Military Regulations of the United States; The Weights,
Measures, and Monies of All Nations;
The Technical Terms and Phrases of the Art of War
in the French Language.
Particularly Adapted to the Use of the Military Institutions
of the United States:
By William Duane,
Late Lieutenant Colonel in the Army of the United States,
and Author of the American Military Library.
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An army without discipline is but a mob in uniform, more dangerous to itself than to its enemy. Should any one from ignorance not perceive the immense advantages that arise from a good discipline, it will be sufficient to observe the alterations that have happened in Europe since the year 1700. SAXE.
I am fully convinced that the tactics of Frederic II. the causes of his superiority, of his system of battles and lines, and of hi most skilled movements have been wholly misunderstood to the present time, and that the actions of this great man have been attributed to maxims diametrically opposite to his real principles. JOMINI.......1808.
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PHILADELPHIA:
Printed and Published by WIlliam Duane,
No. 98 Market Street.
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1810."
Full calf. Spine cracked. Light foxing throughout. Some water staining to first few pages. 748 pages. Pages 3-6 slightly pulled out, but intact.