Boots and Saddles (bugle call)

Boots and Saddles is a bugle call sounded for mounted troops to mount and take their place in line.^[1] It was adopted by the United States Army in 1841. In the British Army it is used as a parade call.^[2]

References

↑ http://www.goatlocker.org/resources/nav/wavfiles.htm Wave files of this and other bugle (and whistle) calls
↑ Byron Farwell, The Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-century Land Warfare: An Illustrated World View (W. W. Norton & Company, 2001), ISBN 978-0-393-04770-7, p. 118. Excerpt available at Google Books.

Bugle calls

Adjutant's Assembly Attention Boots and Saddles Quarters Charge Church Drill Fatigue Fire First First Sergeant's Guard Mount Last Mail Mess Officer's Pay Recall Reveille Rouse Sunset Taps Tattoo

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