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Thread #74392   Message #3869706
Posted By: GUEST,Lighter
03-Aug-17 - 10:43 AM
Thread Name: DTStudy: The Regular Army, O (Harrigan & Braham)
Subject: RE: DTStudy: The Regular Army, O (Harrigan & Braham)
The melody is a slight variation of a march best known as "Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine." (It also has other, apparently later, titles.)

The tune under that title was in print in the U.S. by 1843:

http://tunearch.org/wiki/Bonaparte_Crossing_the_Rhine_(2)

(Thanks to the underappreciated "Traditional Tune Index.")