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Field marshal count saxe's plan for new-modelling the French army, reviving its discipline, and impr...

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Field marshal count saxe's plan for new-modelling the French army, reviving its discipline, and improving its exercise. [electronic resource] : 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 that 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.

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Field marshal count saxe's plan for new-modelling the French army, reviving its discipline, and improving its exercise. [electronic resource] : 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 that 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.

Publisher

London : Printed for T. Osborne, in Gray's-Inn, MCCCLIII. [i.e. 1753]

Uniform title

Traité des légions. English.

Date

MCCCLIII. [i.e. 1753]

Record Identifier

74VKwP58arNb

MMS ID

991018250189702626

Language

English

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Physical content

[4],197,[1]p.,tables ; 12°.

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Publisher

London : Printed for T. Osborne, in Gray's-Inn, MCCCLIII. [i.e. 1753]

Place of Publication

England

Date Published

MCCCLIII. [i.e. 1753]

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Field marshal count saxe's plan for new-modelling the French army, reviving its discipline, and improving its exercise. [electronic resource] : 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 p...

Notes

General note

In fact by Antoine de Ricouart d'Hérouville de Claye (Quérard).

Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).

Citation / References Note

ESTC T151824.

Additional physical form availability note

Also available in microfilm held offsite at RAV/FM4/51.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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74VKwP58arNb

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MMS ID

991018250189702626