THE

ELEMENTS OF WAR.

BY ISAAC MALTBY.
Brigadier General in the Fourth Massachusetts Division.

The militia may be trained to a degree of energy equal to every mi-
litary exigency of the United States.
WASHINGTON.

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it. If we de-
sire to secure peace, it must be known that we are at all times ready
for war.

WASHINGTON.

DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT:

BE it remembered, That on the eleventh day of December, in the thirty-sixth year of the Independence of the United States of America, Isaac Maltby, of the said district, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit:

"The Elements of War. By Isaac Maltby. Brigadier General in the Fourth Massachusetts Division.......The militia may be trained to a degree of energy equal to every military exigency of the United States.....Washington... If we de sire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it. If we desire to secure peace, it must be known that we are at all times ready for war....Washington.”

In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, intitled, “ An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned ;" and also to an act, intitled "An act supplementary to an act, intitled, an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned; and extending the benefits thereof to the Arts of Designing, Engraving, and Etching Historical, and other Prints."

WM. S. SHAW,

Clerk of the District of Massachusetts.

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RECOMMENDATIONS.

From the Hon. Major General Heath, only surviving Major General of the Revolutionary Army.

DEAR SIR,

ROXBURY, August 26, 1811.

HAVING seen your system of discipline and tactics, which you have compiled and digested, for the use of the militia of the United States, I cannot withhold my expression of the great satisfaction which I feel, on the prospect of such an important work being about to be presented to the public. The sound judgment which you have exhibited in your selections from the best modern systems of the first military powers in Europe, and the skill with which you have combined them with just observations of your own, render your system highly interesting, and probably, if adopted, of incalculable advantage to the United States. Your correct, extensive, and explicit drill, the foundation of all right performance in the recruit, or citizen-soldier, is, with out flattery, in my opinion, superior to any I have ever seen. Indeed your system, for its extent and design, does honour to yourself and our country; and I do ardently wish its circulation may be as extensive as our territory.

I am, with respect and esteem,
Dear Sir,

Your humble servant,

Brigadier General MALTBY.

W. HEATH.