We welcome this opportunity to share this incredible resource. A text that shows us a cavalry that trained piaffe. A text that provides us with the unique historical viewpoint of where our riding comes from.

If you have never quite understood what Baucher's flexions are or how they are introduced the text and the diagrams presented are an excellent introduction.

From the Foreward:

This " System for Training Cavalry Horses," is based upon the principles of equitation discovered by Monsieur Baucher, of France , and originally arranged by Captain S. E. Nolan 15th Hussars, English Army. 

Captain Nolan's work is now out of print, and to preserve to the Cavalry Service so valuable a "System," this book has been prepared for publication. It is essentially the same as the original, with the addition of a chapter on “Rarey's Method of Taming Horses.”

For the plates illustrating the following pages, the author is indebted to the skill and kindness of Captain W. H. Bell, 3d Infantry.

West Point , October 1st, 1861.

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