TY - BOOK AU - Hérouville de Claye,Antoine de Ricouart AU - Saxe,Maurice AU - Néel,Louis-Balthazar ED - Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) TI - 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 AV - DC135.S3UD228 N4 v. 3 PY - 1753/// CY - London PB - Printed for T. Osborne, in Gray's-Inn KW - France KW - Armée KW - Infanterie KW - Drill and tactics KW - Handbooks, manuals, etc KW - Early works to 1800 KW - Organization KW - Rome KW - Army N1 - 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; LC copy appears to have been issued as Volume III accompanying Saxe's 2-volume History ... (LCCN 04009394); Barbier, A.A. Ouvrages anonymes; vol. IV, col. 782; BN; vol. 164, col. 223 ER -