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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ricouart d'Hérouville de Claye, Antoine de.

Saxe, Maurice, comte de, 1696-1750., Author.

Standardized Title:

Traité des légions. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

France. Army--Early works to 1800.

France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([4],197,[1]p.,tables )

Other Title:

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

Place of Publication:

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

Notes:

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

Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T151824.

OCLC:

508967945