1. Pariset was referring to The American Trooper’s Pocket Companion: Being a Concise and Comprehensive System of Discipline for the Cavalry of the United States, which he published at Trenton in 1793. The dedication, which appears in the form of a letter to GW, dated “December, 1793,” reads: “Nothing could justify my Temerity in offering to your Excellency a Work so little proportioned to your enlightened Talents in the Art of War, but your Excellency’s known Disposition to patronize every well-meant Endeavour.—My Presumption in presenting it to the Public proceeds solely from Devotion and Zeal for the Service of my Fellow-Citizens of the United States.

“The Utility of an invariable and uniform Plan of Exercise and Discipline for the rising Cavalry of the States, appeared to me obvious.—Assisted by some Years Experience in that Service, I have presumed to digest a System, as concise and comprehensive as a Subject so extensive in itself would permit.—Should this my present Performance fail of receiving your Excellency’s Approbation (which to me would be above all other Eulogium) I flatter myself that your Excellency will pardon me in favour of the Motive that induced me to undertake it.”