Destructive and Formidable: British Infantry Firepower 1642-1756

by David Blackmore

  DD.RH.839 (formerly DD.R.H.388), Exercise of Firelock and Bayonet . . . appointed by his Excie. Lieut. Genll. Ingoldsby

  Dutch Nationaal Archief

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  Historical Manuscripts Commission

  J. M. Heathcote Esq. London, 1899

  Leybourne Popham. London, 1899

  Mrs. Frankland-Russell-Astley of Chequers Court, Bucks. London, 1900

  The Earl of Buckinghamshire. London, 1895

  The Earl of Bathurst. London, 1923

  M L Clements. London, 1913

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  WO 71/68

  PRO 30/8/49

  National Archives of Scotland

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  National Army Museum

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  NAM 7510/92, A copy of a letter written by an officer of the 12th Foot to his mother on the 9th August 1759

  NAM 6807/205, The Exercise of the Firelock and Bayonett that was ordered to be used by all the Regimts in Ireland 1723

  Nottingham University

  Hallward Library, Galway Collection, Ga 12835

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  A New Manual and Platoon Exercise, with an Explanation. Dublin, 1764

  The Manual Exercise as Ordered by His Majesty in 1764 Together with Plans and Explanations of the Method Generally Practis’d at Reviews and Field Days. Boston, T. & J. Fleet, 1774

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  London Chronicle (Semi Annual) London Evening Post

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