History of the Military Canteen (Classic Reprint)By Philip Hildreth Reade

History of the Military Canteen (Classic Reprint)By Philip Hildreth Reade

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Excerpt from History of the Military CanteenAt the beginning of the last century, and for some years after, the soldiers canteen was a wooden, drum-shaped affair, provided with a nozzle. (See cut p. 120.)To now return to that shape and adopt a hollow cylinder, modeled after a drum for packing figs in, would be an advance backwards.The history of mankind is the history of the development of weapons and equipment for war by improvements, in which one nation has overcome another and survived.Within a few months from now our military organization will have been readjusted. The arms and equipments to be necessitated by the increase in numbers of our permanent military establishment should be new and not of the nineteenth century pattern.By July, 1901, perhaps 60,000 canteens now carried by, or in the possession of, United States Volunteers and Regulars will have been turned in. Some of these canteens will be suspended by the returned volunteers beside the obsolete muzzle-loading firearms of the civil war period, and some may find their way into the museums for the collection and display of archaic military weapons and equipments.From being an inconsequential article of a soldier's personal equipment the canteen has become, in fact, one of the most important articles, because connected with hygienic considerations; in other words, because it carries water and because the majority of our troops are in localities where good water is of prime consideration to health.Those who live a comparatively fixed life can hardly weigh aright the importance of a good canteen.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

History of the Military Canteen (Classic Reprint)By Philip Hildreth Reade

• Published on: 2015-09-27
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.02" h x .37" w x 5.98" l, .53 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 174 pages

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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Excellent History Of The Army Canteen! By The Gyro Captain As a collector of canteens, I was really happy to see this Colonel Reade's book back in print. At the time Reade wrote this book, the US Army was fighting in the jungles of the Philippines, but was still using a water bottle that was essentially the same as that carried in the American Civil War. Reade was a driving force towards equipment reform, and had written a report to the War Department advocating a newer, better canteen. Though the Army did not adopt the canteen Reade recommended, they did begin to look into the adoption of a new canteen. The equipment board of 1909 (6 years after "History of the Military Canteen") adopted a new canteen, the basic style of which is still used by the US Army today.If you are interested in the history of US Army canteens, I would recommend: "U.S. Army and Militia Canteens, 1775-1910" by Mike O'Donnell, and the historic blog messkits dot wordpress dot com.

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