02476cam a22003371 4500 ca 05001376 DLC 20260227111041.0 830107s1753 enkf 000 0 eng ca 05001376 DLC dcrb DLC DLC e-fr--- DC135.S3 N4 v. 3 UD228 Hérouville de Claye, Antoine de Ricouart, comte d', 1713-1782. Traité des legions. English Field Marshal Count Saxe's plan for new-modelling the French Army, reviving its discipline, and improving its exercise. In 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. Translated from the original French, with an additional plan of the proposed legion, and others of the battalion, which were all omitted in the original. Vol. III. London : Printed for T. Osborne, in Gray's-Inn, 1753. [2], 197, [1] p., 4 folded plates ; 17 cm. (12mo) The 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. Signatures: [A]¹ B-I¹² K⁴(-K4). Advertisement on t.p. verso: This day is published, in two volumes, The history of Maurice Count Saxe ... Barbier, A.A. Ouvrages anonymes vol. IV, col. 782 BN vol. 164, col. 223 LC copy appears to have been issued as Volume III accompanying Saxe's 2-volume History ... (LCCN 04009394). DLC France. Armée. Infanterie Drill and tactics Handbooks, manuals, etc. Early works to 1800. France. Armée. Infanterie Organization Early works to 1800. Rome Army Early works to 1800. Saxe, Maurice, comte de, 1696-1750. Néel, Louis-Balthazar, approximately 1695-1754. History of Maurice Count Saxe, field-marshal of the French Forces, Duke Elect of Courland and Semigallia. Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) DLC 13335 13335