Regulations for the Exercise of Riflemen and Light Infantry and Instructions for their Conduct in the Field (1814)

Printed for The War Office, Printed for The War Office

ISBN 10: 1843428210 / ISBN 13: 9781843428213

Published by Naval and Military Press, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Regulations for the Exercise of Riflemen and Light Infantry and Instructions for their Conduct in the Field (1814)
• Publisher: Naval and Military Press
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1843428210
• ISBN 13: 9781843428213
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 4 ounces

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Synopsis

Published in the year before Waterloo, this manual gives detailed standard British army regulations for drilling with, loading, and firing rifles, as well as for skirmishing, mounting guards, and forming pickets and patrols. Invaluable for re-enactors, war-gamers and all those interested in the Napoleonic Wars. Illustrated with a series of endpaper diagrams giving the notes for bugle calls, instructions for formations to be adopted in extending lines, retreating, forming chains etc.