The Soldier's Duty
being a list of Various Manual Exercises.



On the following pages you will find the Manual Exercises that were used during the Revolutionary War.


The Manual Exercise, as ordered by His Majesty, in 1764. The "64 drill".


Pickering's Manual Exercise
Taken from Timothy Pickering's "An Easy Plan of Discipline for a Militia, 1775"

Von Steubens'Manual Exercise
Taken from Baron Von Steuben's "Regulations, 1779"


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