Jefferson replied from Monticello on August 12: “
Th: Jefferson makes his acknolegements to m(
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Fisher for the book on Military tactics forwarded to him, and his thanks for this mark of his attention. it would be great
presumption in him to hazard an opinion on a work the subject of which he has been less conversant in than any other. it is
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Fisher will have deserved well of his country for his endeavors to render it familiar to them . . .”
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6
Saxe’s reveries.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 53. no. 53, Sax’s Reveries, 8vo.
SAXE,
Maurice, comte de.
Reveries, or, Memoirs concerning the art of war . . . Translated from the
French [By Sir William Fawcett]. Prefixed, an account of the life of the author.
Edinburgh: Printed . . . for
Alexander Donaldson,
1759.
8vo. 184? leaves, plates; no copy was seen for collation.
Catalogue of the Royal Artillery Library, page 151.
Maurice, Comte de Saxe, 1696-1750, marshal of France. The first edition of his
Mémoires was posthumously published in 1756.
Sir William Fawcett, 1728-1804, English general. The first edition of his translation appeared in quarto in 1757. Fawcett was the general sent
to the continent at the beginning of the American war of Independence to engage the Hessian and Brunswickian mercenaries.
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7
Adye’s Bombardier & pocket gunner.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 54. no. 13, as above.
ADYE,
Ralph Willett.
The Bombardier, and Pocket Gunner. By Ralph Willett Adye, Captain, Royal Regiment of Artillery.
First American, from the
Second London Edition.
Boston: Printed for
E. Larkin, by
William Greenough, Charlestown,
1804.
UF150 .A24
12mo. 146 leaves, numerous printed tables in the text.
Not in Sabin.
Catalogue of the Library of the U.S. Military Academy, no. 233.
Ralph Willett Adye, d. 1808, was a captain of the Royal artillery.
The first edition of this book, still a standard work of reference, was printed in London in 1798.
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8
Kosciuzko. Maneuvres of horse artillery.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 54. no. 63, as above, with reading
Manuœvres.
KOSCIUSZKO,
Tadeusz Andrzej Bonawentura.
Manœuvres of Horse Artillery, by General Kosciusko. Written at Paris in the Year 1800, at the Request of General Wm. R. Davie, then Envoy from the United States to France.
Translated, with Notes and descriptive Plates, by Jonathan Williams, Col. Comdt. of the Corps of Engineers, and President of the U. S. Military Philosophical Society. Published by Direction
of the Society.
New-York: sold by
Campbell & Mitchell,
1808.
UF410 .K86
