Excerpt from Comparative Studies of the Field Equipment of the Foot Soldier of the French and Foreign Armies The importance of the subject of proper field equipment for our infantry is such that it is believed the following pages devoted to comparative studies OF the field equipment OF the foot soldier of foreign armies will be read by all officers - more particularly those of the infantry arm - with real interest and profit. The question of the most suitable pack, of aluminum equipments; of the amount of ammuni tion carried on the person, of portable intrenching tools, as well as the growing tendency to reduce the total weight car ried by the foot soldier, are but a few of the problems which are dealt with in this work. A short preface by General Dumont, as well as the prelim inary description of the United States infantry equipment, are omitted from the translation of the text as lacking inter est for American readers. Descriptions of the field equip ment of the infantry of austria-hungary, France, Germany, Great Britain, and Italy have been revised and brought up to date by the United States military attaches accredited to those countries. Other data is of the year of publication of the French work, which was issued in 1902 by Messrs. Hachette Co., 79 Boulevard, st.-germain, Paris. 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."