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Military discipline and the origin of the manual exercise
In this 1759 Edinburgh Chronicle excerpt the author surveys losses at a major August battle, praises Swedish and Dutch drill methods, credits Maurice and Gustavus Adolphus for disciplined infantry, and traces the birth of the manual exercise through European military history with notes on platoon tactics and brigades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pir Youls
M. Paskammer
Itzenplitz
Hulfen
Wedel
Seidlitz
Prince of
Jortemberg
Knoblauch
Klitzing
Spaen
Platen
Europe
Brantom
D. d'Albe
da M Strozzi
Flanders
Maurice of
Gustavus Adolphus
Maurice
Gustavus
Epaminondas
Thebans
Kniphausen
Torstenson
Banier
Bernard of
Weimar
Lutzen
Robert Monro
Bariffe
Lewis
Xivth
Mont. Martinet
Regiment du Roi
Deerburg