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A NEW SYSTEM OF SWORD EXERCISE FOR INFANTRY.
BY RICHARD F. BURTON, AUTHOR OF ‘A SYSTEM OF BAYONET EXERCISE’ (1853).
LONDON: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, 13, CHARING CROSS. 1876.
THESE PAGES ARE DEDICATED (WITH PERMISSION) TO His Royal Highness Field-Marshal the Duke of Cambridge, COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE ARMY, ETC., ETC., ETC., WHO HAS GRACIOUSLY ENCOURAGED THIS ATTEMPT TO EXTEND THE ‘INFANTRY SWORD EXERCISE,’ BY HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS’S MOST HUMBLE AND DEVOTED SERVANT,
THE AUTHOR.