Cooke, Philip St. George (1809 – 1895)

« Officier cavalerie américain, il a servi en tant que général de l’Union pendant la guerre de Sécession. Parfois considéré comme le père de la cavalerie de son pays; est l’auteur d’un manuel de cavalerie.»

– Cavalry tactics or, Regulations for the instruction, formations, and movements of the cavalry of the Army and volunteers of the United States. Houston, Texas, Printing House-E.W. Cave, 1863.

– The handy book for United States Cavalry : containing the basis of instruction ... manual of the pistol and sabre and instruction on horseback by Philip St. George Cooke, Brigadier-General U.S. Army. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1863.

– Cavalry tactics, or, Regulations for the instruction, formations, and movements of the cavalry of the army and volunteers of the United States — prepared under the direction of the War Department, and authorized and adopted by the Secretary of War by Philip St. Geo. Cooke. Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1865.