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Louis-Michel de Jeney. The Partisan, or, The Art of Making War in Detachment. London: Printed for R. Griffiths, Bookseller, 1760.
Capt. Johann Ewald, a Hessian officer who recorded his experiences in America, listed
de Jeney’s work among the military treatises typically found in captured American knapsacks during the Revolutionary War. George Washington owned a copy of this English translation of Le Partisan and he specifically recommended it to one of his officers, Col. William Woodford, who had expressed doubts about his own ability to command troops. [2015]
France. Louis XV. Code Militaire, ou Compilation des Ordonnances des Rois de France concernant les Gens de Guerre. Nouvelle edition. 8 vols. A Paris: Chez Durand, 1761. This handsomely bound compilation of the military ordinances of the kings of France bears the bookplates of Lt. Gen. George Lane Parker, a British officer of the era of the American Revolution. [2012]
Campbell Dalrymple. A Military Essay. Containing Reflections on the Raising, Arming, Cloathing, and Discipline of the British Infantry and Cavalry: with Proposal for the Improvement of the Same. London: Printed by D. Wilson, 1761.
This copy belonged to American general Anthony Wayne and it bears his autograph
in two places. [2008]
The Seasonable Address of a Militia-Man, to Those of His Fraternity, on the
Prospect of a Peace, and that of Their Dissolution, or rather Dispersion, in Consequence thereof. London: Printed for J. Wilkie, 1761.
The unidentified author begins: “Gentlemen! It is now...three or four years...since
many of you have been, I dare say, not disagreeably diverted, from the quiet and peaceable duties of your respective callings – from the counter, the plough and other the ordinary instruments of industry – to the more immediate service of your country, in a very different employment – as handlers of musket, sword and bayonet. Some of you have not been harnessed more than a year or two; long enough however I am persuaded, to understand what you were about – to have perfected yourselves in the art-military, and other genteel accomplishments of the profession.” [2009]
Thomas Haselden. The Seaman’s Daily Assistant, being a Short, Easy, and Plain Method of Keeping a Journal at Sea. London: Printed for J. Mount and T. Page, 1767. Inscriptions in this volume document the travels and travails of a succession of owners. The earliest signature indicates that the book was purchased by Abram Outten in Baltimore in 1769; the next owner was John Sturgis, who bought the book in Baltimore in 1776 and recorded in it his experiences as a privateer sailing in the West Indies. Another owner, Edward Yard, acquired the book in 1777 and in it recorded his capture and transport to Forton Prison in England. While at Forton, Edward Yard sold the book to another American prisoner, Jonathan Carpenter. [2009]
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