ARMORUM ARCHIVE
United States executive department established in 1789 to administer military affairs and reorganized under the National Security Act of 1947. It is the collective author of the Army manuals represented here.
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United States Army officer and military author. A West Point graduate, George Washington Patten produced manuals on infantry tactics, bayonet drill, small-sword exercise, artillery and cavalry drill during the American Civil War era.
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American historian of science, historical dance and fencing who disseminated facsimiles of rare fencing sources and contributed substantially to modern HEMA research.
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Irish-born American journalist, editor and political commentator. Edwin Lawrence Godkin reported on the Crimean War, founded The Nation in New York in 1865 and later led the New York Evening Post; the linked 1883 article appeared in The Nation.
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American surveyor, militia major general, public official, antiquarian and military writer based in Deerfield, Massachusetts. Epaphras Hoyt taught military science and wrote on cavalry drill, military history and the colonial wars.
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American newspaper editor associated with the New York Herald and an early historian of the American press. He published Journalism in the United States from 1690 to 1872 in 1873.
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American military engineer, army officer, Union general and politician. George Brinton McClellan served in the Mexican-American and Civil Wars, commanded the Army of the Potomac, and prepared the United States Army Manual of Bayonet Exercise in 1852 from French practice.
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American army officer and military author. Henry Constantine Wayne prepared the United States Army sword exercise of 1850, later organised the experimental Camel Corps, and subsequently served the state of Georgia and the Confederacy.
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Henry Eckford is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Fencing and the New York Fencers” (1887). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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American educator and travel writer who studied at Göttingen and Berlin. Henry Edwin Dwight’s account of northern Germany described universities, student customs and academic fencing from direct observation.
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American novelist and editor who lived in London and founded and edited The Yellow Book. He contributed “A Duel” and joined the discussion on duelling in The Idler in March 1894.
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American Unitarian minister and theologian, identified bibliographically as the author of an 1838 sermon on duelling.
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