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Excerpt from The Military History of Waterbury: From the Founding of the Settlement in 1678 to 1891, Together With a List of the Commissioned Officers and the Records of the Wars; Containing Also an Outline of All the Changes in the Military Organization of the State
When the bands turned out six times each year for drill, work was forsaken, and men, women and children came forth to celebrate. One writer says The enjoyment which they experienced in watching the maneuvers of the soldiers and the games of cudgel, back-sword, fencing, run ning, leaping, wrestling, stool ball, nine-pins and quoits was enhanced by Sharing the spectacle with the multitude, meeting old friends and making acquaintances. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
