MARSHAL TURENNE, Memoires & Maximes, First Edition, 1740

MILITARY
MEMOIRS AND MAXIMS OF MARSHAL TURENNE:

(Henri de La Tour d' Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, 1611 - 1675)

Interspersed with Others, taken from the best
authors and Observation, with Remarks, by
A. WILLIIAMSON

First Edition, 1740,
J. & P. Knapton, London

18th century Brown Calf, raised bands, endbanding, 8vo, 7 x 4-1/2”

Endpapers have been torn from the boards
(there are remaining fragments of manuscript.)

190pp + 2 pp publishers ads.

Inscribed with early owner’s name :
Ine I. Lee 1870
on first dedication page.

Napoleon recommended all soldiers “ to read and re-read” the campaigns of Turenne.

The title: Marshal General of France,
(given to Turenne 04 April 1660) signified that the recipient had authority over all French armies in the days when a Marshal usually governed one army.
His fame as a general rivaled that of any other in Europe at a period when the populace studied war
more critically than ever before.
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