Field Marshal Count Saxe's plan for new-modelling the French Army, reviving its discipline, and improving its exercise
Subtitle: 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.
By: 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.
Contributors: Saxe, Maurice, comte de, 1696-1750.; Néel, Louis-Balthazar, ca. 1695-1754.; Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed for T. Osborne, in Gray's-Inn
Published: 1753
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
Subjects: France. Armée. Infanterie -- Drill and tactics -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. -- Early works to 1800.; France. Armée. Infanterie -- Organization -- Early works to 1800.; Rome -- Army -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: Barbier, A.A.  Ouvrages anonymes vol. IV, col. 782
BN vol. 164, col. 223
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).
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LC copy appears to have been issued as Volume III accompanying Saxe's 2-volume History ... (LCCN 04009394).