02454cam a22003251  4500001001300000003000400013005001700017008004100034010001700075040002400092043001200116050002900128100007100157240003500228245075600263260006001019300005501079500017201134500004101306500011001347510005601457510002701513500011701540610010101657610007001758651003701828700004201865700016201907710005902069ca 05001376 DLC20260227111041.0830107s1753    enkf          000 0 eng    aca 05001376   aDLCedcrbcDLCdDLC  ae-fr---00aDC135.S3bN4 v. 3aUD2281 aHérouville de Claye, Antoine de Ricouart,ccomte d',d1713-1782.10aTraité des legions.lEnglish10aField Marshal Count Saxe's plan for new-modelling the French Army, reviving its discipline, and improving its exercise.bIn which are shewn the advantages of the Roman legion; and a proposal made for forming the French Infantry into thirty legions : with three tables, containing the necessary alterations to be made in their present infantry for the purpose, and the pay of the several ranks in the legion. Together with that great man's thoughts on the true causes of the French victories and defeats in the two last wars; and his delineation of the present state of the French Army.cTranslated from the original French, with an additional plan of the proposed legion, and others of the battalion, which were all omitted in the original.nVol. III.  aLondon :bPrinted for T. Osborne, in Gray's-Inn,c1753.  a[2], 197, [1] p., 4 folded plates ;c17 cm. (12mo)  aThe publishers mistakenly attributed the first few editions of 1753 to Count Saxe. Cf. Barbier and BN, who attribute the Traité des légions to Herouville de Claye.  aSignatures: [A]¹ B-I¹² K⁴(-K4).  aAdvertisement on t.p. verso: This day is published, in two volumes, The history of Maurice Count Saxe ...4 aBarbier, A.A.  Ouvrages anonymescvol. IV, col. 7824 aBNcvol. 164, col. 223  aLC copy appears to have been issued as Volume III accompanying Saxe's 2-volume History ... (LCCN 04009394).5DLC10aFrance.bArmée.bInfanteriexDrill and tacticsvHandbooks, manuals, etc.vEarly works to 1800.10aFrance.bArmée.bInfanteriexOrganizationvEarly works to 1800. 0aRomexArmyvEarly works to 1800.1 aSaxe, Maurice,ccomte de,d1696-1750.1 aNéel, Louis-Balthazar,dapproximately 1695-1754.tHistory of Maurice Count Saxe, field-marshal of the French Forces, Duke Elect of Courland and Semigallia.2 aPre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)5DLC