History of the Military Canteen (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from History of the Military CanteenAt the beginning of the last century, and for some years after, the soldier's canteen was a wooden, drum-shaped affair, provided with a nozzle. (see cut p.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.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.