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COMPRISING
ANCIENT AND MODERN MILITARY TECHNICAL TERMS, HISTORICAL ACCOUNTS
OF ALL NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS, AS WELL AS ANCIENT WARLIKE
TRIBES; ALSO NOTICES OF BATTLES FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD
TO THE PRESENT TIME, WITH A CONCISE EXPLANATION OF
TERMS USED IN HERALDRY AND THE OFFICES THEREOF.
THE WORK ALSO GIVES VALUABLE GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION.
COMPILED FROM THE BEST AUTHORITIES OF ALL NATIONS.
WITH AN APPENDIX CONTAINING THE ARTICLES OF WAR, Etc.
BY
THOMAS WILHELM,
CAPTAIN EIGHTH INFANTRY.
REVISED EDITION.
PHILADELPHIA:
L. R. HAMERSLY & CO.
1881.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1880, by
THOMAS WILHELM, U.S.A.,
In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.
TO
BREVET MAJOR-GENERAL AUGUST V. KAUTZ,
COLONEL EIGHTH REGIMENT OF INFANTRY, U.S.A.,
BY WHOSE SUGGESTIONS, ENCOURAGEMENT, AND AID THE WORK WAS UNDERTAKEN,PERSEVERED IN, AND COMPLETED,
THIS COMPILATION
IS, WITH RESPECT AND GRATITUDE, DEDICATED
BY HIS OBEDIENT SERVANT,
THE COMPILER.
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It is with no small degree of relief that the compiler of this work nowturns from a self-imposed task, involving some years of the closest application,to write a brief preface, not as a necessity, but in justice to the workand the numerous friends who have taken the warmest interest in its progressand final completion.
It is inevitable that in the vast amount of patient and persistent labor ina work of this kind, extending to 1386 pages, and containing 17,257 distinctarticles, there should be a few errors, oversights, and inconsistencies, notwithstandingall the vigilance to the contrary.
Condensation has been accomplished where it was possible to do so, andrepetition avoided to a great extent by reference, where further informationwas contained in other articles of this book.
The contributions to the Regimental Library, which afforded the opportunityfor this compilation, of standard foreign works, were of infinite value,and many thanks are tendered for them.
To G. & C. Merriam, Publishers, for the use of Webster’s UnabridgedDictionary; J. B. Lippincott & Co., Publishers, Philadelphia; D. Van Nostrand,Publisher, New York; Maj. William A. Marye, Ordnance Department,U.S.A.; Maj. W. S. Worth, Eighth