REGULATIONS FOR THE EXERCISE OF RIFLEMEN AND LIGHT INFANTRY

British army manual for riflemen in the Napoleonic Wars giving a wealth of information on firing, infantry tactics, bugle calls etc. Rare and invaluable, originally printed for the War Office in 1814. Reprint of the 1814 original edition.British army manual for riflemen in the Napoleonic Wars giving a wealth of information on firing, infantry tactics, bugle calls etc. Rare and invaluable. 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.