A

MILITARY DICTIONARY,

OR,

EXPLANATION OF THE SEVERAL SYSTEMS OF DISCIPLINE OF DIFFER-
ENT KINDS OF TROOPS,

INFANTRY, ARTILLERY, AND CAVALRY;

THE PRINCIPLES OF FORTIFICATION,

AND

ALL THE MODERN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
SCIENCE OF TACTICS:

COMPRISING

THE POCKET GUNNER, OR LITTLE BOMBARDIER;

THE MILITARY REGULATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES; THE WEIGHTS,
MEASURES, AND MONIES OF ALL NATIONS;

THE TECHNICAL TERMS AND PHRASES OF THE ART OF WAR
IN THE FRENCH LANGUAGE.

PARTICULARLY ADAPTED TO THE USE OF THE MILITARY INSTITUTION
OF THE UNITED STATES:

BY WILLIAM DUANE,

LATE LIEUTENANT COLONEL IN THE ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES,
AND AUTHOR OF THE AMERICAN MILITARY LIBRARY.

An army without discipline is but a mob in uniform, more dangerous to itself than to
its enemy. Should any one from ignorance not perceive the immense advantages that
arise from a good discipline, it will be sufficient to observe the alterations that have happen-
ed in Europe since the year 1700.
SAXE.

I am fully convinced that the tactics of Frederic II. the causes of his superiority, of his
system of battles and lines, and of his most skilful movements have been wholly misun-
derstood to the present time, and that the actions of this great man have been attributed
to maxims diametrically opposite to his real principles.
JOMINI.....1808.

PHILADELPHIA:

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM DUANE,

No. 98, MARKET STREET.