A

MILITARY DICTIONARY

AND

GAZETTEER.

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.

2014014 -R1025.5

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.

то

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.