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A military dictionary. Explaining all difficult terms in martial discipline, fortification, and gunnery. The third edition, improv'd. To which is likewise added, a sea-dictionary of all the terms of navigation. Both of them very useful (to all persons that read the publick news, or serve in the army, navy, or militia) for the understanding the accounts of sieges, battels, and other warlike and marine expeditions, which daily occur in this time of action. By officers who serv'd several years at sea and land.
Date: MDCCVIII. [1708]- Books
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A treatise of military discipline; in which is laid down and explained the duty of the officer and soldier, thro' the several branches of the service. By Humphrey Bland, Esq; major-general of His Majesty's forces.
Bland, Humphrey, 1686?-1763.Date: MDCCLIII. [1753]- Books
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Military instruction from the Late King of Prussia to his generals. (Illustrated with plates.) To which is added, (by the same author) particular instruction to the officers of his army, and especially those of the cavalry. Translated from the French, by Lieut. Foster, 1st (or Royal) dragoons.
Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786.Date: [1797]- Books
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A treatise of fortification, containing the ancient and modern method of the construction and defense of places. And the manner of carrying on sieges, explain'd more at large than in any other Book yet extant. Written Originally in French, by Mr. Ozanam, Professor of the Mathematicks. Illustrated with 46 curious copper plates. Done into English, and amended in several places, by J. T. Desaguliers of Hart-Hall, Oxon. with an appendix, concerning that manner of fortifying, which is truly Mr. Vauban's: Never before in English.
Ozanam, Jacques, 1640-1717.Date: [1711]- Books
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Appendix, or, supplement to the treatise of artillery: Containing The true Projectile described by Bodies in the Air. The greatest Velocity and Resistance they can have. The most advantageous Length of Guns, and their Charges which produce the greatest Effects; with an Introduction of Fluxions. To which is added, the true Figure of the Earth, deduced from actual Mensuration. By John Muller, Preceptor to his Royal Highness William Duke of Gloucester.
Muller, John, 1699-1784.Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Books
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A treatise of military discipline; in which is laid down and explained the duty of the officer and soldier, Thro' the several Branches of the Service. By Humphrey Bland, Esq; Lieutenant-Colonel of His Majesty's Own Regiment of Horse.
Bland, Humphrey, 1686?-1763.Date: MDCCXXXIV. [1734]- Books
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Observations on the landing of forces designed for the invasion of a country. With arguments on the safest and most expedient courses to be taken on that occasion; by Sir Clement Edmonds, Knt. Whereupon are added, some animadversions, With several Examples and Arguments to manifest the great advantages o a good fleet in war Between Nations divided by the Sea; And prove, that an Army may be landed in an Enemy's Country, unless they have a Naval Power able to oppose it. By Sir Walter Ralegh, Knt.
Edmondes, Clement, Sir, 1566 or 1567-1622.Date: MDCCLIX. [1759]- Books
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The military guide for young officers, containing a system of the art of war; ... By Thomas Simes, Esq. ...
Simes, Thomas, active 1757-1780.Date: [1772?]