[MILITARY] A TREATISE ON CAMP AND MARCH.WITH WHICH IS CONNECTED THE CONSTRUCTION OF FIELD WORKS AND MILITARY BRIDGES. WITH AN APPENDIX OF ARTLLERY RANGERS, &c. FOR USE OF VOLUNTEERS AND MILITIA IN THE UNITED STATES

Henry D. Grafton

Verlag: Fetridge and Company, Boston, 1854

Beschreibung

A small octavo binding, rather soiled and faded but well intact. In tan cloth with decorative titling stamped to the upper cover, and titling to the spine. Pale yellow endpaper. Slightly cocked.~~A practical manual exploring such matters as the dimensions of a camp for a regiment of six hundred men (they are 600 feet across and 800 feet deep) and the construction of the flues and furnace for the camp kitchen fire. Many chores which accompany life in the camp are detailed. ~~Grafton was a cadet at the Military Academy in the 1830's and was promoted to the Army serving on the Northern Frontier during the Canada Border Disturbances; in the Mexican War; and in fights against the Seminole Indians. He resigned the year he published Camp and March. Good binding. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 293020

Bibliografische Details

Titel: [MILITARY] A TREATISE ON CAMP AND MARCH.WITH...

Verlag: Fetridge and Company, Boston

Erscheinungsdatum: 1854

Zustand: Good binding

Auflage: First Editoin.