Military tactics: Esprit du Chevalier Folard, original edition of 1761
TACTICS. FREDERIC II OF PRUSSIA: Esprit du Chevalier Folard, drawn from his comments on the history of Polybius. A useful work for officers.
A berlin Chez Chrétien-Frédéric Woss et se trouve A Lyon chez Jean-Marie Bruyset, 1761.
First edition, illustrated with 24 folding plates and 1 additional plate (Douay relief).
Bound in 4 full calf, five-ribbed spine decorated with gilt floral boxes and irons, red edges. Worn and worn.
Published on the initiative of Frederick II of Prussia, this work is a tribute to and compilation of the works on tactics and military strategy by Jean-Charles de Folard, known for his military successes and for having taken part in all the wars at the end of the reign of Louis XIV. It was his reading of Caesar and especially Polybius that gave him such a special appreciation of wars and the military world, which for him were less a profession than a learned and profound art.
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