Military collections and remarks
By: Published by Major Donkin
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 15289
Publisher: Printed by H. Gaine, at the Bible and Crown, in Hanover-Square
Published: 1777
Place of publication: New-York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: Military art and science; Early works to 1800; History; Humor
Notes: A treatise on military science. Events of the American Revolution are used in several cases as illustrative material. "The work has remained infamous from the following foot-note on page 190, under the subject of bows: 'Dip arrows in matter of small pox, and twang them at the American rebels, in order to inoculate them; this would sooner disband these stubborn, ignorant, enthusiastic savages, than any other compulsive measures. Such is their dread and fear of that disorder!' In all but two known copies this note is mortised out."--Evans.

Published to assist in providing funds "to relieve and support the innocent children and widows of the valiant soldiers inhumanly and wantonly butchered" when "peaceably marching to and from Concord the 19th April, 1775." Cf. Preface.

Dedicated "to the Right Honorable Hugh, Earl Percy."

Signatures: A⁸ ²A⁸ B-R⁸ S⁴.

Engraved frontispiece signed: J. Smither sculp.

"Subscribers names."--p. [1-19] of unnumbered section. Almost all subscribers were of the British army and navy.

"Errata."--p. [22], unnumbered section.

Evans 15289