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Riding and Driving Instructions

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Riding and Driving Instructions extracted from US and UK Manuals:

US:

Field Artillery Tactics (1864) Articles Fourth and Seventh

Drill and Service Regulations for Field Artillery (1916) Section 213

"The Soldier, Instruction Mounted, Without Arms" TR 50-45 (1922)*

"The Field Artillery Driver" TR 430-75 (1923)

Horsemanship and Horsemastership (1942)

GB:

Adjutant Generals "Manual on Equitation" (1819)

Manual for Artillery Exercises - Equitation (1875)

Mounted Instruction for Field Artillery (1921)

Captain Lucas of the Cape Mounted Riflemen wrote a description of the Regular’s seat in 1850: (He) “sat his horse like a pair of scissors with his toes well turned out, the instruction being to avoid clinging with the knees. In consequence men rode entirely by balance.” (Lucas, 1878, pp.69-70)

 

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