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.