"The early French Wars (1689-1748) in North America saw provincial soldiers, or British white settlers, in Massachusetts and New Hampshire fight against New France and her Native American allies with minimal involvement from England ... Steven Eames demonstrates that [the battlefield style that] developed in early New England was ... a unique way of war that selectively blended elements of European military strategy, frontier fighting, and native...

This volume is the companion to the Orderly Book, and was issued by the State's Adjutant General. It contains a roster, year to year, of the militia company members with the exact pieces of equipment issued to each. It names the officers, noncommissioned officers, privates, and musicians. The privates were each equipped with a musket, iron ramrod, bayonet, cartridge box and belt, 2 spare flints, priming wires and brushes, knapsack and canteen. There...