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Memoirs of the Duke de Villars, Marshall General and Peer of France : [manuscript] / translated from the French by Lt. Col. Francis Maule, circa 1820.

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Author/Creator:
Villars, Claude Louis Hector, duc de, 1653-1734.
Language:
English
Format:
  • Manuscript/Archive
  • 1 volume, 252 numbered pages.
Note:
There are numerous corrections, and passages marked for deletion or insertion, presumably in preparation for intended publication. Original marbled paper covers, with hand written label by Francis Maule, and an added note "& a collection of dried ferns, by whom or where from, I don't know. Oct. 1904, [P.S.M.?]" Two ferns remain inserted in the blank pages of the preface.
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Open for research; material must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use.
Summary:
At the beginning is a four-page tipped-in draft ‘Preface of the Translator’, in which he notes that ‘In the small work which I have translated will be found several military details which may be understood by military men. To them they cannot but be interesting as they point out the difference of warfare in those days, from that which is now practised. Since the entrance of Napoleon into the command of armies the system is become less complicated...and the regulations... less irksome and more concise.’ [dealer description] Also included is a loosely inserted note relating to the translator.
Source:
Purchased, 2009. Accession 2009-309.
Note:
Claude Louis Hector Villars (1653-1734) was the last of the great generals of Louis XIV. He fought in the Dutch War (1672-78) and in 1687 went to Bavaria, where he helped strengthen the new French alliance with the elector of Bavaria; he fought with the elector against the Ottomans at Mohács. After serving (1698-1701) as ambassador at Vienna he was given a command in the War of the Spanish Succession and made his reputation by his victories at Friedlingen (1702) in Baden and Höchstädt (1703) in Bavaria. In 1704 he quelled the revolt of the Camisard . Defeated (1709) by the Duke of Marlborough and Eugene of Savoy at Malplaquet, he successfully defended the French frontier during the succeeding years; in 1712 he defeated Eugene at Denain and in 1713-14 negotiated the Treaty of Rastatt. He was a member of the regency council (1715-23) and of the succeeding administrations and was in supreme command in the War of the Polish Succession at the time of his death [dealer description]. Lt. Colonel Francis Maule, (1778-1839), of Bath, was a descendant of the Maule family, who were created Barons of Panmore and the Earls of Dalhousie. A 1735 translation had previously appeared, based upon the partial memoirs which were published in French in 1734. This appears to be a completely new attempt, for a new generation [dealer description].
Contributor:
Maule, Francis, translator.
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