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Eighteenth-Century Military Miscellany

Abstracts of the number and yearly pay of the land-forces of Horse, Foot and Dragoons on Great Britain, by a member of Parliament.  London, 1718.
IU, RBC Uncat 73 373 (London, 1718).

An account of the debates for and against the bill for punishing mutiny and desertion.  With the protests on that head.  London, Printed S. Popping, 1717.
IU, RBC, Uncat. 77 3 (London, 1717).

An account of the plot laid by the French in 1730 for the blowing up, and utterly destroying the city of Luxembourg, by setting fire to its principal powder magazines.  Translated.  London, J. Roberts, 1742.
IU, RBC x844 v88 OmA (London, 1742).

Albania:  a poem, addressed to the genius of Scotland.  Dedicated to General Wade, commander in chief of His Majesty’s forces in North Britain.  London, Printed for T. Cooper, 1737.
IU, RBC x828 Sh52 box 2 cs (London, 1737).
Comments:  21 pages.

Alderfelt, Gustaf, 1671-1709.  The military history of Charles XII king of Sweden.  Written by the express order of His Majesty, by M. Gustavus Alderfeld.  To which is added, an exact account of the battle of Pultowa, with a journal of the King’s retreat to Bender.  Illustrated with plans of the battles and sieges.  Translated into English.  3 vols.  London, Printed by J. and P. Knapton, 1740.
IU, RBC x948.05 C38WaE Cs (London, 1740).

Algarotti, Francesco, conte, 1712-1764.  Letters from Count Algarotti to Lord Hervey and the Marquis Scipio Maffei, containing the state of trade, marine, revenues, and forces of the Russian empire:  with the history of the late war between the Russians and the Turks and observations on the Baltic and the Caspian Seas.  To which is added, a dissertation in the reigns of the seven kings of Rome, and a dissertation on the empire of the Incas; by the same author.  Translated from Italian.  London, Printed for Johnson and Payne, 1769.
IU, RBC x854Al3 Balc3l (London, 1769).
Comments:  By the author of Sir Issac Newton’s philosophy explained for the use of ladies, 1739.

An answer to the Tears of the foot guards, in which that respectable corps are vindicated from the charges of puppyism and cowardice.  Inscribed to Capt. Horneck and Enseign Richardson.  London, printed for G. Kearsy, 1776.
IU, RBC x821 P75 v.3 (London, 1776).
Comments:  21 pages.

Barbier, Edmond Jean François, 1689-1771.  Chronique de la régence de du règne de Louis XV (1718-1763); ou, Journal de Barbier ...  Première édition complète conforme au manuscrit autographe de l’auteur, pub. avec l’autorisation de S.E.M ...  8 vols.  Paris, Charpentier, 1857.
IU, 944.03 B23c 1857 (Paris, 1857).

Barbier, Edmond Jean François, 1689-1771.  Journal historique et anecdotique du règne de Louis XV, par E. J. F. Barbier ...  Pub. pour la Société de l’histoire de France d’après le manuscrit inédit de la Bibliothèque royale, par A. de La Villegrille ...  4 vols.  Paris, J. Renouard et cie, 1847-56.
IU, 944 So13p v.48, 58, 65, 80 (Paris, 1847-56).
Comments:  Société de l’histoire de France.  Publications in octavo, nos. 48, 58, 65, 80.

Béla, Jeanne Philippe, chevalier de, 1709-1796.  Mémoires militaires du Chevalier de Béla.  Publiés par E. Duceré, précédées d’une biographie par J. De Jaurgain.  Bayonne, A. Lamaignère, 1896.
ICN, F 3925 .068 (Bayonne, 1896).

Biron, Armand Louis de, later duc de Lauzun.  Memoirs of the Duc de Lauzun.  Translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff.  New York, New York Times & Arno Press, 1969.
ICN, oDC 137.5 B6 A24 1969 (New York, 1969).
Comments:  In “Eyewitness accounts of the American Revolution.”

Considerations on a Spanish War, with remarks on the late manifesto, delivered by the Spanish ambassador.  London, J. Wilkie and W. Davis, 1779.
ICU, D292 .C75 (London, 1779).

Considerations on the present mode of quartering soldiers, in the suburbs of Edinburgh, particularly in the burgh of Canongate; containing some observations on the grievances complained of by the trading part of the inhabitants on that account.  Edinburgh, Sold for the benefit of the Canongate Charity Work-House, 1780.
MnU (Edinburgh, 1780).
Comments:  29 pages.

Considerations on the present state of affairs in Europe, and particularly with regard to the number of forces in the pay of Great Britain.  2nd ed.  London, Printed for J. Roberts, 1730.
WU (London, 1730); ICN (London, 1730); IEN (London, 1730); MiU (London, 1730); ICJ (London, 1730); MnU (London, 1730); IU (London, 1730).
Comments:  Attributed to Horatio Walpole, to whom is also attributed, The case of the Hessian forces in the pay of Great-Britain ... in answer to a late pamphlet ... Considerations on the present state of affairs, etc.  Concerns the employment of Hessian mercenaries in the British Army.  Also attributed to Francis Hare, bishop of Chichester, 1671-1740.

Conway, Henry Seymour, 1721-1795.  The military arguments [concerning the proposed expedition to the French coast] in a letter to a right honourable author [Thomas Potter] fully considered, by an officer.  3rd ed.  London, Printed for J. Robinson, 1758.
InU, Lilly Spec. DA87.5 1757 .C767 M63 (London, 1758); MiD (London, 1758); ICN (London, 1758).
Comments:  76 pages.  A pamphlet in reply to Thomas Potter’s The expedition against Rochefort fully stated and considered.  See also at InU Conway’s The officers answer to the country gentleman’s reply ...  London, J. Robinson, 1758.  51 pages.

Coutinho, André Ribeiro.  Relaçao diaria da expugna çao, e rendimento da praça de bicholym em 27 de mayo de 1726.  Escrita por André Ribeyro Coutinho, sargento mó de infanteria, e alcayde mór de Baçaim.  Lisbon Occidenatal, Na Officina de Miguel Godrigues [sic], 1728.
InU, Lilly DS 498.7 .R696 1715 Mendel (Lisbon, 1728).
Comments:  38 pages.

Cross, R., d. 1760.  The adventures of John Le-Brun.  Containing a surprising series of entertaining accidents on his own life.  Also several historical accounts of the private memoirs of his contemporaries.  Being an impartial history of his own times.  In which all transaction of any secrecy or importance, whether amorous, moral, or military, are faithfully related ...  2 vols.  London, Printed for G. Hawkins and sold by J. James, 1739.
IU, RBC x823 C8845a (London, 1739).

Defoe, Daniel, 1660(61)-1731.  An apology for the army.  In a short essay on fortitude, &c.  Written by an officer.  London, Printed for J. Roberts, 1715.
IU, RBC x942.071 D362a 1715a (London, 1715); ICN U 045 .041 (London, 1715).
Comments:  58 pages.

Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784, ed.  Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers ...  Par une société de gens de lettres mis en ordre & publié par M. Diderot ...  17 vols. of text and 12 vols. of plates.  Paris, Briasson, [etc.], 1751-65.
IU, RBC, Xq EN 1 1751.
Comments:  Contains numerous articles of military nature.

Douglas, Stuart.  A military dissertation, containing a plan for recruiting the British Army, and improving its establishment ...  To which is added a second plan, for manning the Navy ...  Also a third plan, for recruiting the East India Company’s service, without having recourse to the worst of all measures, that of kid-napping ...  London, 1781.
ICN, U 145 .237 (London, 1781).

Enschedé, Jan Willem, 1865-1926.  Marschen en marschmuziek in het Nederlandsche leger der achttiende eeuw.  Door J. W. Enschedé.  Amsterdam, F. Muller & co., 1898.
OU (Amsterdam, 1898); MiU (Amsterdam, 1898).

État militaire de France, pour l’année 1758-93 ...  Paris, Guillyn, 1758-93.
ICN U 139 .274 (Paris, 1758-93).
Comments:  The Newberry library, ICN, has the following years in this series:  1761, 1770-1771, 1774, 1776, 1778-1779, 1781, 1784-85.  The contents of each état includes the number of troops serving, uniforms, names of the principal officers, the governors of provinces, the états-majors des places, and a summary of military ordinances.

Ferguson, Adam, 1723-1816.  Reflections previous to the establishment of a militia.  London, R. and J. Dodsley, 1756.
ICN, U 145 .291 (London, 1756).
Comments:  53 pages.

Friedrich II, der Grosse, king of Prussia, 1712-1786.  The art of war:  a poem, in six books.  Translated from the French of the king of Prussia.  With a critique on the poem, by the Comte Algarotti, 1712-1764.  Translated from the Italian.  London, Printed for G. Riley, 1780.
IU, RBC x844F91 OaE (London, 1780).

Friedrich II, der Grosse, king of Prussia, 1712-1786.  Politische Correspondenz Friedrichs des Grossen ...  Berlin, A. Duncker, 1879-19--.
OO (Berlin, 1879-19--); OU (Berlin, 1879-19--).

Friedrich II, der Grosse, king of Prussia, 1712-1786.  Reflexions sur les talens militaires et sur le caractere de Charles XII.  Roi de Suede.  Berlin, C. F. Henning, 1759.  Berlin, R. Labisch & Co., 1925 facism.
ICN, Wing Zp - fac. 747 .H 516 (Berlin, 1925).

Gleim, Johann Wilhelm Ludwig, 1719-1803.  Preussiche Soldatenlieder in den Jahren von 1778 bis 1790.  Berlin, Bei Johann Friedrich Unger, 1790.
IU (Berlin, 1790).
Comments:  Gleim is also the author of Preussische Volkslieder in den Jahren 1772 bis 1800.  Halberstadt?, 1800.  Available at OCl.

Glenie, James, 1750-1817.  A reply to the Answer to a short essay on the modes of defence best adapted to the situation and circumstances of this island, &c. in a letter to his grace the Duke of Richmond ...  London, Printed for G. T. Nilkie, 1785.
ICN (London, 1785).

Gorani, Giuseppe, conte.  ...  Memoire di giovinezza e di guerra (1740-1763).  Pubblicate da Alessandro Casat.  Milan, A. Mondadori, 1936.
OU, D 285.8 G6 A2712 (Milan, 1936).
Comments:  Text in French.

Hayes, James, ed.  The military papers of Colonel Samuel Bagshawe (1713-62).  In John Rylands Library, Manchester.  Bulletin,  vol. 39 (1957), pp. 356-389.
ICN, Z 79 .J 608 v. 39 (Manchester, 1957).

Henley, John, 1692-1756.  Apotheosis.  A funeral oration; sacred to the memory of the most noble John Duke of Marlborough.  As it was spoken in the day of his internment.  Form’d upon the manner of antients.  London, Printed for W. Mears, 1722.
IU, RBC x942.06 M34 Whe (London, 1722); ICU (London, 1722); InU (London, 1722).

Le Rouge, Georges Louis.  Theatre de la guerre en Allemagne contenant toutes les operations militaires des campagnes de 1733, 34, et 35, les plans des sieges et des camps ...  Paris, L’auteur, 1741.
ICN, Case U 047 502 (Paris, 1741).
Comments:  One of the few works in this guide that pertains to the War of Polish Succession.

Le Sage, Alain René.  The adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane.  New translation.   London, Printed for W. Strahan, 1785.
IU, RBC x844L56 OhEs 1785 (London, 1785).  Numerous other editions available at most major midwestern research libraires.
Comments:  Actually by the author of Roderick Random (T. Smollett).  Fiction.

Mauvillon, Éléazar de, 1712-1779.  Histoire du prince Eugene de Savoye, généralissime des armées de l’empereur & de l’empire.  Vienna, Brittaut, 1777.
ICN (Vienna, 1777); IU (Vienna, 1777); MnU (Vienna, 1777); MiU (Vienna, 1741); InU (Vienna, 1745); ICN (Amsterdam, 1750); IEN (Amsterdam, 1750); ICU (Vienna, 1755).

Mauvillon, Éléazar de, 1712-1779.  Le soldat parvenu; ou, Mémoires et aventures de Mr. de Verval, dit Bellerose, par Mr. de M***.  Enrichi de figures en taille-douce.  2 vols.  Dresden, G. C. Walther, 1753.
IU, 844M449 Os (Dresden, 1753).
Comments:  A novel.

Memoirs of Lord Viscount Dundee, the Highland clans, and the massacre of Glenco:  with an account of Dundee’s officers after they went to France.  By an officer of the army ...  London, J. Brown, 1714.
InU (London, 1714); ICN (London, 1714); MnU (London, 1714); OCl (London, 1714); InU (London, 1718); OCl (Glasgow, 1818); MiU (London, 1903).
Comments:  Ridpath, Georges, d. 1726, supposed author.

Mémoires d’un militaire, depuis l’année 1735, jusqu’au quartier-d’hyver de 1758.  Par M. R*****.  Wesel, 1759.
ICN, U 039 .566 (Wesel, 1759).

Möller, Hermann, 1850-1923.  ...  Ein hochdeutsches und zwei niederdeutsche Lieder von (1756-1763) aus dem siebenjährigen nordischen Kriege.  Mit einem Anhang:  Deutsche Lieder aus der Grafenfehde.  Von Hermann Möller.  Berlin, Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1902.
ICN, A 9 .3517 n.s. v.6.

Montalembert, Marc René, marquis de, 1714-1800.  Essai su l’interêt des nations en général, et de l’homme en particulier, où l’on traite de l’homme, de son espirit, de sa folie, de sa pensée, de ses sentimens, de ses bonnes ou mauvaises qualités, de ses devoirs, depuis ceux du souverain, jusqu’à ceux de particulier, des loix, des finances, du commerce, de la religion, de la paix & de la guerre.  N.p., 1749.
ICN (N.p., 1749).

Paradès, Victor Claude Antoine Robert, calling himself comte de, 1752-1786?.  Secret memoirs of Robert count de Paradès, written by himself, on coming out of the Bastille.  Serving to supply some important facts for the history of the late war; and containing an account of his successful transactions, as a spy in England, with the real causes of the failure of the ever memorable expedition against Plymouth, in 1779.  London, Printed for R. Baldwin, 1791.
InU, Lilly Spec. DC137.5 .P22 (London, 1791).
Comments:  155 pages.  Most authorities have agreed that the author was a pretender to the name of Paradès.

Pitt, William, 1759-1806.  The war speeches of William Pitt the younger.  Selected by R. Coupland.  Oxford, 1915.
IU, 942.07 P68w (Oxford, 1915).

Planches relatives a l’exercise de l’infanterie, suivant l’ordonnance du roi, du premier juin 1776.  Metz, Collignon, 1776?
MnU (Metz, 1776?)

Proposals for amending the militia act, so as to establish a strong and well-disciplined national militia; in a method consistent with justice due to the rich, and with that compassion which true policy requires should be at all times shewn to the poor:  and so as to remove all cause of dislike of a militia, from all who are willing to strengthen the kingdom ...  London, 1759.
ICN, U 145 .88 v. 2 (London, 1759).
Comments:  Binder’s title:  Tracts on the militia, v. 2.

Reeves, John, farrier.  The art of farriery both in theory and practice, containing the causes, symptoms, and cure of all diseases incident to horses ...  The whole rev., corr., and enl. by a physician.  To which is added, a new method of curing a strain in the back-sinews and the anatomy of a horse’s leg ...  by an eminent surgeon [i.e. Dale Ingram].  4th ed.  London, Printed for Clarnan and Newbery, S. Crowder, and B. Collins, 1778.
IU, RBC x636 .1089 R26a (London, 1778).

Savile, Sir George, bart., 1726-1784.  An argument concerning the militia ...  N.p., 1762.
ICU (N.p., 1762); MiU (N.p., 1762).
Comments:  19 pages.

Simes, Thomas.  A new military, historical, and explanatory dictionary including the Warrior’s gazetteer of places remarkable for sieges or battles.  By Thomas Simes, esq.  Philadelphia, Sold by Humphreys, Bell, and Aitken, 1776.
MiU (Philadelphia, 1776); ICU (Philadelphia, 1776); WU (Philadelphia, 1776); InU, Lilly (Philadelphia, 1786).

Smollett, Tobias George, 1721-1771.  The adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom.  London, Printed for W. Johnston, 1753.
IU, RBC x823 Sm7f 1753 (London, 1753).
Comments:  Fiction.  Numerous other editions available at most major midwestern research libraries.

Sottiaux, Jules.  La merveilleuse épopée des Gardes wallonnes en Espagne et en Italie; récits épiques.  Collection Durendal, no. 71.  Bruxelles, Durendal, 1948.
OU, UA 786 G8 S6 (Brussels, 1948).

Sparte ressucitée, ou, Les guerriers français par un ancien élève de l’école militaire.  Paris, Les Marchands de nouveautés, 1789.
InU, Lilly D C 163.7 .S737 (Paris, 1789).
Comments:  60 p.  Signed B... de B...y.  A prophetic title in light of the victories that would be won by the Republic.  It was dedicated to the marquis de Lafayette.

Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de, 1694-1778.  Histoire de Charles XII. roi de Suède.  10 éd. De Christophe Revis, plus ample ... que toutes les précedentes, augmentée des critiques de la Montraye, & des résponses à ces critiques ...  Basel, Revis, 1740.
ICU, DL 732.v888 (Rouen, 1731); IU (Basel, 1732); ICN (Basel, 1732); InU (Berlin, 1752);   OU (Geneva, 1763); OCl (Liège, 1789); ICN (Berlin, 1792); IU 948.05 C38Wv4 (Leipzig, n.d.); English editions:  IU (London, 1733); OCl (London, 1780).
Comments:  Numerous other editions available at most major midwestern research libraries.

Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de, 1694-1778.  Histoire de l’empire de Russie sous Pierre le Grand.  Par l’auteur de l’Histoire de Charles XII.  2 vols.  N.p., 1759-1763.
ICU (N.p., 1759-1763); MnU (N.p., 1759-1763); IU (N.p., 1759-1763); MiU (Geneva, 1759-1763); IU 947.05 v88h (Geneva, 1759-65); IaU (Geneva, 1759-65); ICU Dk131 v89 (Leipzig, 1761-1764); IEN (Leipzig, 1761-64);  English editions:  ICJ (Glasgow, 1764); OCl (Edinburgh, 1769); ODW (Edinburgh, 1769); ICU, DK131 .v923 (Aberdeen, 1777); MnU (London, 1778).
Comments:  Numerous other editions available at most major midwestern research libraries.

Warnery, Charles Emmanuel de, 1719-1786.  Remarques sur le militaire des Turcs et des Russes; sur la façon la plus convenable de combattre les premieres; sur la marine des deux empires belligerants; sur les peuples qui ont joint leurs armees a celles de Russie.  Breslau [Wroclaw, Poland], G. T. Korn, 1771.
ICU, DR 448.W28 Austrian (Breslau, 1771); IEN (Breslau, 1771); WU (Breslau, 1771); IU (Breslau, 1771); ICN U 159. 955 (Leipzig, 1770).

Wimpfen, Louis François, baron de, 1732-1800.  Refonte de l’économie de l’armée françoise, ou Extrait et développement d’une plan militaire.  Paris, Didot fils ainé (Jombert jeune), 1787.
ICN, U 139 .977 (Paris, 1787).