Books and Manuals Archive

Books
Baurmeister "Revolution in America the letters and journals of Major General Baurmeister"

Carlsruhe "Was ist jedem Officier waehrend eines Feldzugs zu wissen noethig" (a 1738 manual in German for what an officer needs to have/know to take the field)

Clinton/Cornwallis "Correspondence Between Clinton and Cornwallis"

Emmerich "The Partisan in War"

Ewald "Diary of the American War"

Ewald "Treatise on Partisan Warfare"

Ewald "A Treatise on the Duties of Light Troops"

Franklin Ben Franklin on Hessians, a collection of ficticous letters and articles published during the revolution by Ben Franklin

Lochee "An Essay on Castrementation"

"Siege of Charleston" (collection of Diaries: Ewald, Heinrichs, Baurmiester, Von Wintzingeroda)

Simcoe "A history of the Partisan Corps known as the Queens Rangers"

Translation of a treaty between his Majesty and the Landgrave of Hesse Cassel 1776

Rodgers "Journal or Robert Rodgers"

Manuals
1754 German Drill Manual

1764 Manual of Arms (English manual)

 

The Espontoon Excercise

 

Blands p1

Bland p2

 

Windham "Norfolk Milita Drill"

Howe "Light Infantry Discipline" Established by Major General Howe 1774

British Light Infantry Manual "Regulations for the Excercise of Riflemen and Light Infantry"1797

British Light Infantry Manual 1797 (Word version from British Brigade site)

Thanks to the NRA American Rifleman Magazine and George Neuman for publishing these magnificent articles

These articles are mirrors of the original NRA web articles, some of the links within the articles may not work
The Redcoat's Brown Bess (by George Neumann)

The "Revolutionary" Charleville (by George Neumann)

American Made Muskets of the American Revolution (by George Neumann)

Dutch Arms in the American Revolution (by George Neuman)

Hunting Guns in Colonial America (by George Neuman)