-A Treatise of Military Discipline by Humphrey Bland, 1727.
-An Easy Plan of Discipline for a Militia by Timothy Pickering, 1775. This was based on the ‘Norfolk Plan' for the British militia of the county of Norfolk, 1759.
-British Army Drill Regulations of 1764. This was popularly known as the ‘Sixty-Fourth.'
-Regulations for the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the United States by General Baron von Steuben, 1779. This was a new set of drill regulations based on French, German, and British sources.
‘The genius of this nation is not in the least to be compared with that of the Prussians, Austrians, or French. You say to your soldier ‘Do this!' and he does it; but I am obliged to say ‘This is the reason why you ought to do that'; and then he does it.'-General Baron von Steuben.