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TURPIN DE CRISSÉ (Lancelot Théodore). ESSAI sur l'Art de la Guerre. A Paris. 1754. - TURPIN DE CRISSÉ (Lancelot Théodore) ESSAI sur l'Art de la Guerre . Par M. le Comte Turpin de Crissé, Brigadier des Armées du Roi, & Mestre de Camp d'un Régiment d'Hussards. A Paris: Chez Prault, Fils l'aîné, Quai de Conti, à la Charité; Jombert, Imprimeur-Libraire du Roi, rue Dauphine, à l'Image N. D., 1754. 2 v.: [8], 444, [2] pp.; [4], 4, 204, [2] pp.; 25 est.: il.; 285 mm. First edition. Treatise on land warfare, organized into five books: the first covers all the operations of a campaign, except for sieges; the second deals with the attack; the third, with encampments; the fourth, with precautions for attacking the enemy in their encampments; the fifth, with small warfare and the usefulness of light troops. Lancelot Turpin de Crissé (1716; c. 1795), a hussar officer, brigadier general in the King's armies and later lieutenant-general, distinguished himself above all on the battlefields of Germany and was a member of the academies of Berlin, Nancy and Marseille. This work, dedicated to the King, was widely disseminated in Europe: it was translated into German, Russian (1758-1759) and English by Joseph Otway (1761), and was studied by British officers such as John Forbes and Henry Bouquet before the 1758 campaign against Fort Duquesne. Complete work in two volumes, with faces printed in red and black, title vignette designed by François Boucher and engraved by Ange-Laurent de La Live de Jully, headpieces and finials by Quentin-Pierre Chedel, and 25 fold-out engravings outside the text, engraved by Dheulland. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate