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Pocket edition. [iii], iv-xxxii, [i], 2-278, [i], 2, [i], [ii] pages of advertisements. In poor condition. Leather covers, some large areas of loss. Metal clasp missing from the front cover. Claps still present on back cover, but leather is torn around it. Very worn, some loss to the top of spine. Front hinge slightly loose, rest of binding seems secure. Pages removed from another book, apparently of poetry, tucked inside. Some staining to the end papers. Name of former own written along page edges. Page edges colour-coded to identify the different sections.
An updated edition of field exercises, rifle exercises, musketry, and musketry instruction. A general order introducing the work from His Highness Field Marshal Commanding-in-Chief Lord William Paulet, A.G (1804-1893). Served in the British Army from 1821-1870, fought in the Crimean War, and became Adjutant-General to the Forces in 1865.
Name on the spine is Major James Bennett, Queen's Own Rifles. Could be James Bennet who was ensign of No. 2 Company at the Battle of Ridgeway in 1866, serving under Captain Fred E. Dixon and Lieutenant Farquhar Morrison. The son of a miner from St Austell, England, he had come to Canada some time in the mid-1840s, where he served as part of the militia and participated in the Orange Order and the Temperance League, while serving as Deputy Collector for the Department of Inland Revenue in Toronto. He was promoted to major by 1873, and served as a councilman on Toronto City Council from 1863-1864.
The contents are as follows:
Definitions
Part I: Recruit or Squad Drill
General Rules
Recruit or Squad Drill, with Intervals
Marching
Squad Drill, In Single Rank
Squad Drill, In Two Ranks
Skirmishing
Dismissing
Part II: Company Drill
General Rules
A Company in Line and Column
Wheeling, or Forming, From the Halt
Wheeling, or Forming, on the March
Miscellaneous Movements and Formations
Formation of Half-Companies and Sections
Skirmishing
Inspecting, Proving, and Dismissing
Part III: Formation and Evolutions of a Battalion
General Rules
A Battalion on Parade
Formation and Movements of a Battalion in Line
General Rules
Formation and Movements
Column Movements
General Rules
Movements
Formations of Column From Line
Formation of Line from Column
Deployments
Movements and Changes of Front in Echelon
General Rules
Movements and Changes of Front in Echelon
Formations to Resist Cavalry
General Rules
Formations
Skirmishing
General Rules
Spring or Setting-Up Drill
Part IV: Formations and Movements of a Brigade
General Rules
Brigade Movements of Columns in Mass, and In Line
Movements In Line, or In Line of Columns
Movements of Brigade in Double Column
Advancing or Retiring in Column
Changes of Front and Position
Deployments
The Flank March in Fours
Movements of Divisions, or Larger Bodies
Second Lines
Position of Artillery
Field Manoeuvers
Part V: Shelter-Trench and Pit Exercise
Genera Rules
Part VI: Advanced and Rear Guards, Piquets, and Outposts
Part VII: Misellaneous Subjects
Inspections or Reviews
Route Marching
Single Rank and Skeleton Drill
Guards
Funerals
Presentation of Colours
Bugle Sounds.
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