Works cited for British (English/Scottish) Military sources, including Army Regulations, orderly books, memoirs, journals, etc.
British Military Scholarly Sources
Boyle, Roger. A Treatise of the Art of War. In the Savoy: T.N., 1677.
Dahl, Jedediah. “Formations of the Music.” 2001.
Derbige, G. “Dress of the Drummers of the Three Regiments of Footguards.” Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research 51, no. 205 (Spring 1973), pp. 40-48.
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Elton, Richard. The Compleat Body of the Art Military. London: Robert Leybourn, 1650.
Fortescue, J. W. A History of the British Army: first part – to the close of the Seven Years’ War. London: Macmillan and Co., 1899.
Lawrence, David.The Complete Soldier: Military Books and Military Culture in Early Stuart England, 1603-1645. PhD diss., University of Toronto, 2006.
—.The Complete Soldier: Military Books and Military Culture in Early Stuart England, 1603-1645. Boston: BRILL, 2008.
Manning, Roger B. An Apprenticeship in Arms: The Origins of the British Army 1585-1702. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Markham, Francis. Five decades of epistles of warre. London: Augustine Matthewes, 1622.
Phillips, Gervase. “In the Shadow of Flodden: Tactics, Technology and Scottish Military Effectiveness, 1513-1550.” The Scottish Historical Review 77, no. 204, part 2 (Oct 1998), pp. 162-182.
Wishon, Mark. “Interaction and Perception in Anglo-German Armies: 1689-1815.” PhD diss., University College London, 2011.
Pre-18th Century Military Sources – British
A Compleat Schoole of Warre. London: Bible and Harp, 1642.
The Exercise of the English, in the Militia of the Kingdome of England. 1641.
Garrad, William. The Arte of Warre. London: Roger Warde, 1591.
Holme, Randle. The Academy of Armory, or a Storehouse of Armory and Blazon. Chester, England: 1688.
Scott, Sibbald David. The British Army: Its Origins, Progress, and Equipment. 2 vols. London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, 1868.
Smythe, John. Certain Discourses Military … concerning the Forms and Effects of Divers Sorts of Weapons (1590). Edited by J. R. Hale. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1964.
18th Century Military Sources – British
Advice to the officers of the British Army. 6th ed. Dublin: W. Wilson, 1781.
Bland, Humphrey. A Treatise of Military Discipline (1727). 6th edition. London: 1746.
Burgoyne, John. Orderly Book of Lt. Gen. John Burgoyne, from his entry into the state of New York until his surrender at Saratoga, 16th Oct. 1777. Edited by E. B. O’Callaghan. Albany: Munsell, 1860.
Campaigns of King William and Queen Anne; from 1689 to 1712. Also a New System of Military Discipline for a Battalion of Foot on Action… London: J. Millan, 1745.
Cavan, Earl of [Richard Lambert]. A New System of Military Discipline. Philadelphia: R. Aitken, 1776.
Cuthbertson. System for the Complete Interior Management and Economy of a Battalion of Infantry. Bristol: Rouths and Nelson, 1776.
Dalrymple, Campbell. A military essay: Containing reflections on the raising, arming, cloathing, and discipline of the British infantry and cavalry; with proposals for the improvement of the same. 2 vols. London: Wilson at Plato’s Head, 1761.
De Crissé, Turpin. An essay on the art of war. 2 vols. Translated by Captain Joseph Otway. London: A. Hamilton, 1761.
Dundas, David. Principles of Military Movements. London: T. Cadell, 1788.
—. Rules and Regulations for the Formations, Field-Exercise, and Movements of His Majesty’s Forces. London: War Office, 1798.
Fisher, Thomas. Warlike Directions: or The Souldiers Practice. 3rd Edition. London: Thomas Harper, 1644.
Fortune, T. The Artillerist’s Companion, containing the Discipline, Returns, Reports, Pay, Provision, &c. of that Corps, in Field, in Forts, at Sea, &c. London: J. Millan, 1778.
Gage. “General Orders.” Handwritten MS. 1774-1775.
General Orders of 1757: Issued by the Early of Loudoun and Phineas Lyman in the Campaign Against the French. New York: 1899.
General Regulations and Orders for the Conduct of His Majesty’s Forces in Great Britain. London: War Office, 1799.
Grimke, John F. “Orderly Book of John Faucheraud Grimke.” (1779). South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine. 1912.
Grose, Francis. Military Antiquities Respecting a History of the English Army. 2 vols. London: S. Hooper, 1786.
Hadden, James. A Journal Kept in Canada and Upon Burgoyne’s Campaign in 1776 and 1777. Edited by Horatio Rogers. Albany, NY: Joel Munsell’s Sons, 1884.
Howe, William. General Sir William Howe’s Orderly Book, at Charlestown, Boston and Halifax, June 17, 1775 to 1776, 26 May. Edited by Benjamin F. Stevens. London: B.F. Stevens, 1890.
—. General Sir William Howe’s Orderly Book. Handwritten Manuscript. 1776-1777.
Instructions for Forming a Regiment of Infantry for Parade of Exercise, together with the Eighteen Manoeuvres, as ordered to be practiced by His Majesty’ Infantry Forces. London: T. Egerton, 1799.
Jackson, C. A Military Dictionary. Dublin: C. Jackson, 1780.
Johnson, John, Sir. Orderly book of Sir John Johnson during his Campaign against Fort Stanwix from Nov. 4th, 1776 to July 30th, 1777. Annotated by William L. Stone. New York: A. S. Barnes & Co., 1881.
—. Orderly book of Sir John Johnson during the Oriskany Campaign, 1776-1777; annotated by William L. Stone … with an historical introduction illustrating the life of Sir John Johnson, Bart., by J. Watts de Peyster … and some tracings from the footprints of the Tories or loyalists in America, contributed by Theodorus Bailey Myers. Albany, NY: Munsell’s Sons, 1882.
Kemble, Stephen. The Kemble Papers: 1773-1778. Edited by Edward Lancey. vol. 1 New York: Collections of the New York Historical Society, 1883.
—. The Kemble Papers: 1780-81. Edited by Edward Lancey. vol. 2. New York: Collections of the New York Historical Society, 1884.
Knox, John. An Historical Journal of the Campaigns in North-America, for the years 1757, 1758, 1759, and 1760. 2 vols. London: 1769.
Lochée, Lewis. An Essay on Military Education. London: T. Cadell, 1776.
Newsome, A. R. “A British Orderly Book, 1780-1781.” The North Carolina Historical Review 9, no. 1 (January 1932), pp. 57-78.
Orderly Book Burgoyne’s Campaign of 1777 Ticonderoga to Saratoga, 47th Regiment of British Foot. Transcribed by Frank C. Deering, 1932.
Orderly book of the “Maryland loyalists regiment,” June 18th, 1778, to October 12th, 1778. Including general orders issued by Sir Henry Clinton, Baron Wilhelm von Kuyphausen, Sir William Erskine, Charles, lord Cornwallis, General William Tryon and General Oliver De Lancey.Kept by Captain Caleb Jones. Ed. by Paul Leicester Ford. Brooklyn, NY: Historical Printing Club, 1891.
Orderly book of the three battalions of loyalists, commanded by Brigadier-General Oliver De Lancey 1776-1778; to which is appended a list of New York loyalists in the city of New York during the war of the revolution– comp. by William Kelby. New York: New York Historical Society, 1917.
Pattison. “Orderly Book.” Handwritten MS. 1777-1778.
Pickering, Timothy. An Easy Plan of Discipline for a Militia. 2nd Edition. Boston: S. Hall, 1776.
Plan of Discipline for the Bedfordshire Regiment of Militia. Northampton: Cluer Dicey, 1760.
Plan of Review, for the Volunteer Corps, which are to assemble at Belfast in July 1781. 1781.
Reide, Thomas. A Treatise on the Duty of Infantry Officers and the Present System of British Military Discipline. London: J. Walter, 1795.
Rules and Regulations for the Field Exercise and Movements of the Army in Ireland. Dublin: G. Grierson, 1789.
Simes, Thomas. A Military Course for the Government and Conduct of a Battalion. 2nd Edition. London, 1777.
—. A Portable Military Library […] A System of the Art of War. 4 vols. London: 1782.
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—. A Treatise on the Military Science. London: John Millan, 1780.
—. The Military Guide, for Young Officers. 2 vols. Philadelphia: Humphreys, Bell, and Aitken, 1776.
—. The Military Medley. Dublin: S. Powell, 1768.
Smith, George. Universal Military Dictionary. London: J. Millan, 1779.
The Manual Exercise as Ordered by His Majesty in the Year 1764. Philadelphia: J. Humphreys, 1776.
The New Manual Exercise, Firings and Manoeuvres: with the Explanations as ordered by His Majesty, 1764. New Castle, England: Thomas Slack, 1767.
Whitefoord, Charles and Caleb Whitefoord. The Whitefoord Papers […] 1739 to 1810. Edited by W. Hewins. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1898.
Williamson, John. The Elements of Military Arrangement; comprehending the Tactick, Exercise, Manoevres, and Discipline of the British Infantry. London: 1781.
Windham, William. A Plan of Discipline, Composed for the Use of the Militia of the County of Norfolk. London: J. Shuckburgh, 1760.
—. A Plan of Discipline, Composed for the Use of the Militia of the County of Norfolk. 2nd edition. London: J. Millan, 1768.
Wolfe, James. General Wolfe’s Instructions to Young Officers. London: Whitehall, 1768.
Young, William. Manoeuvres, or Practical Observations on the Art of War. London: J Millan, 1771.
19th Century Military Sources – British
Carman, W. Y. “Infantry Clothing Regulations, 1802.” Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research 19, no. 76 (Winter, 1940), pp. 200-235.
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Duane, William. A Military Dictionary. Philadelphia: William Duane, 1810.
General Regulations and Orders. London: C. Roworth, 1804.
Regulations for the exercise of riflemen and light infantry, and instructions for their conduct in the field. London: T. Egerton, 1803.
Rules and Regulations for the Manual and Platoon Exercises, Formations, Field-Exercise, and Movements of His Majesty’s Forces for the Use of the Non-Commissioned Officers of the British Army. Whitehall, London: War Office, 1816.
Standing Orders and Regulations for the 85th Light Infantry. London: T. Egerton, 1813.
The King’s Regulations and Orders for the Army: Horse-Guards, 1st June, 1837. 1837.
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