A Letter to the Right Hon. Lord Castlereagh, Secretary of State, &c.&c.&c. From Colonel George Hanger; proving how One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Men, as well disciplined as any Regiment of the Line need be, may be acquired in the short space of Two Months; with Instructions to the Volunteers. . . to which is added a Plan for the formation of a Corps of Consolidated Marksmen

Book Description

London: Printed for J. Ridgway, 1808. [ii], 86pp., 8vo. Paper somewhat crinkled but perfectly sound; small and old inkstamp of the Mercantile Library, Philadelphia in the upper blank margin of title and first leaf of text. Neatly bound in calf-backed boards antique, spine gilt. First and only edition of one of Hanger’s rarest tracts. He was regarded in his own time as something of a crackpot, the type of the eccentric aristocrat (he became the fourth Baron Coleraine in 1814), but he served in the British army throughout the American Revolution, and had considerable expert knowledge of military subjects. He also seems to have been an expert on marksmanship, and there is a substantial section in this pamphlet on rifles and rifle-shooting. One copy (Stanford) in OCLC, and three (BL, Bodley and Manchester) in COPAC.

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