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_bN4 v. 3
_aUD228
100 1 _aHérouville de Claye, Antoine de Ricouart,
_ccomte d',
_d1713-1782.
240 1 0 _aTraité des legions.
_lEnglish
245 1 0 _aField 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.
260 _aLondon :
_bPrinted for T. Osborne, in Gray's-Inn,
_c1753.
300 _a[2], 197, [1] p., 4 folded plates ;
_c17 cm. (12mo)
500 _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.
500 _aSignatures: [A]¹ B-I¹² K⁴(-K4).
500 _aAdvertisement on t.p. verso: This day is published, in two volumes, The history of Maurice Count Saxe ...
510 4 _aBarbier, A.A. Ouvrages anonymes
_cvol. IV, col. 782
510 4 _aBN
_cvol. 164, col. 223
500 _aLC copy appears to have been issued as Volume III accompanying Saxe's 2-volume History ... (LCCN 04009394).
_5DLC
610 1 0 _aFrance.
_bArmée.
_bInfanterie
_xDrill and tactics
_vHandbooks, manuals, etc.
_vEarly works to 1800.
610 1 0 _aFrance.
_bArmée.
_bInfanterie
_xOrganization
_vEarly works to 1800.
651 0 _aRome
_xArmy
_vEarly works to 1800.
700 1 _aSaxe, Maurice,
_ccomte de,
_d1696-1750.
700 1 _aNéel, Louis-Balthazar,
_dapproximately 1695-1754.
_tHistory of Maurice Count Saxe, field-marshal of the French Forces, Duke Elect of Courland and Semigallia.
710 2 _aPre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
_5DLC
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