Troop Drill Proposal by Charles Harden

Troop Drill Proposal by Charles Harden

Monthly returns of troops in Charles Harden's company at Fort Lyttleton, February 4, 1777. Two undated items: notes about exercising the troops and new recruits

inventory of supplies at Fort Lyttleton.

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Cox, Danielle

Butler, Collin (transcriber)

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Ms. 72, Charles Harden Military Papers, 1777.

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Proposal, that the Companies be exercis'd by their respective officers, and the new Recruits be drilled by the Sergts. & Corporals of their own Companies, that the Companies be joined together & occasionally review'd by the Colonel the Major [illegible] them in Battalion the field pieces twice a week, & that they practice the Battery Cannon every day for an hour, that a working party be employed in the Laboratory two hours each day.


Drill and Discipline of the troops

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