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A38472 English military discipline, or, The way and method of exercising horse & foot according to the practice of this present time with a treatise of all sorts of arms and engines of war, of fire-works, ensigns, and other military instruments, both ancient and modern, enriched with many figures. Harford, Robert, fl. 1677-1681. 1680 (1680) Wing E3105A; ESTC R9992 10,464 49

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