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Reference (shelfmark):: Kings MS 238
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'MÉMOIRE raisonné sur les parties les plus essentielles de la tactiques (sic), redigé et présenté a Monseigneur [Louis Francois de Monteynard,] le Marquis de Monteynard, Ministre et Secretaire d'Etat au Departement de la Guerre [1771-1774], par le Baron de Pirch, Capitaine de Dragons a la suite ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1771-1774
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Kings MS 239
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'PLANS OF EVOLUTIONS that are of some use for squadrons to practise and officers to know, either for three squadrons, a line of twenty, or more, most humbly offered to His Royal Highness the Duke [? William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, Captain-General 1745- 1757] and submitted to his superior j...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Mid 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Kings MS 240
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'MEMORANDUMS relative to the Austrian, Prussian, Dutch, and French Troops, also the Plates Explanatory of the new French Exercise for the Infantry, with some remarks, and the Manoeuvres performed by the Garrison of Lille on the 13th, 18th, and 22nd of September 1774 by D[avid] Dundas, Major, Kin...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1774
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Kings MS 241
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'REMARKS on the Prussian Troops and their movements, by Col. D[avid] Dundas, Quarter-Master-General of Ireland, 1785'; made during the author's attendance at the Prussian manoeuvres in Silesia, at Berlin, at Potsdam, and at Magdeburg, in 1785; with many coloured plans. He has affixed his signatu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1785
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Kings MS 242
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'PRUSSIAN EXERCISES, 1788: Journal of the spring exercises of the Prussian Troops during the months of April, May and June, 1788', by Col. David Dundas. with coloured plans. The author has added an autograph reference to King's 241 on f. 7 b and his signature on f. 6b. Paper ; ff. 45. Folio. 13...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1788
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Kings MS 243
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'UNIFORMEN der sämtlichen Königlichen Grossbritannischen und Churfürstlichen Braunschweig-Lüneburgschen deutschen Trouppen, 1790' : a series of coloured drawings by H- B- Merker, Ensign of Artillery. Paper; ff. 49. 7 5/8 in.x 6 in. A.D. 1790. Tree-calf binding.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1790
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Kings MS 244 A-B
Title:: KING'S 244 A and B PLAN AND 'EXPLANATION of the Roman Camp containing a consular army of 16,800 foot and 1,800 horse, collected from Polibius (sic) and others, antient and modern authors, by Anthony Gavin, chaplain of His Majesty's Regiment [31st Foot] commanded by the Honble Collonel [Charles] Cathcart lafterwards 8th Baron Cathcart in London anno Domini 1729'. The author, who states his indebtedness for help to Col. William Blakeney, is probably identical with the converted Spanish priest,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1729
Extent:: 2 items

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