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Creator:
Cuninghame, James, of the Scotch Brigade in the Dutch Service
Title(s):
The tactic of the British army reduced to detail : with reflections on the science and principles of war : uniting in one view the evolutions of the battalion, brigade, and line : and pointing out their combinations with each other and uses on actual service : illustrated with fifty-nine copper plates / by James Cuninghame, Major of Infantry in the service of the East India Company.
Edition:
Second edition.
Published/Created:
London : Printed for T. Egerton at the Military Library, near Whitehall, by C. Roworth, Sell Yard, Fleet Street, 1804.
Physical Description:
viii, 73, [1] p., 97 leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 23 x 27 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
UA43.G7 C86 1804+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Some of the plates signed: Neele sculp Strand.
Text printed in double columns.
NSTC, C4509
BAC: British Art Center copy in original gray paper-covered boards. Ms inscription on recto of first free end-paper: Major O'Hara [illegible] Militia.
Subject Terms:
Engraving -- Specimens -- 1804.
Etching -- Specimens -- 1804.
Great Britain. Army. -- Maneuvers.
Great Britain. Army. Infantry -- Drill and tactics.
Military art and science -- Great Britain.
Military history, Modern -- 19th century.
Military maneuvers -- Great Britain.
O'Hara, Major -- Autograph.
Contributors:
Egerton, Thomas, bookseller, publisher.
Roworth, C., printer.
Neele, Samuel John, 1758-1824, engraver.
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