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The souldiers exercise: : in three bookes. Containing most necessary and curious rules for the exact mustering both of horse-troopes, and foote-bands, with severall formes of battailes described in figures. A worke fit to be studied, and meete for the knowledge of captaines, muster-masters, and all young souldiers, and generous spirits that love the honourable practise of armes

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1643.
Call number: 146744
Creator: Markham, Gervase (1568?-1637)(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: 4to
Associated organization: Bridgewater House Library,
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