ESSAY ON THE NECESSITY OF IMPROVING OUR NATIONAL FORCES. BY... FORMERLY OFFICER OF LIGHT CAVALRY, AID-DE-CAMP IN THE FRENCH SERVICE, AND MEMBER OF THE LEGION OF HONOUR
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- New York: Published by Kirk and Mercein. William Mercein, Printer, 1819
New York: Published by Kirk and Mercein. William Mercein, Printer, 1819. 112pp plus folding table. Disbound, scattered foxing. Good+.
Americans, the author says, have "had little occasion for military knowledge and military institutions." Evidently overlooking Americans' successful Revolution, perhaps concentrating on the far more ambiguous conclusion of the War of 1812, Tone sets out to school them. He seeks to wean them from "the crudest notions advanced by statesmen and orators of the highest political talent." England and the European Powers "view this country with jealous and hostile feelings, as still maintaining those principles which they have crushed every where else... Britain, besides, fears for her naval ascendency and commercial monopoly, from our rising trade and improving navy." England, he says, has a treacherous geopolitical strategy. Tone proposes a curriculum for officers and improvements to the American military establishment.
FIRST EDITION. Sabin 96159. OCLC 504263679 [3] [as of June 2015], and many facsimiles.
Americans, the author says, have "had little occasion for military knowledge and military institutions." Evidently overlooking Americans' successful Revolution, perhaps concentrating on the far more ambiguous conclusion of the War of 1812, Tone sets out to school them. He seeks to wean them from "the crudest notions advanced by statesmen and orators of the highest political talent." England and the European Powers "view this country with jealous and hostile feelings, as still maintaining those principles which they have crushed every where else... Britain, besides, fears for her naval ascendency and commercial monopoly, from our rising trade and improving navy." England, he says, has a treacherous geopolitical strategy. Tone proposes a curriculum for officers and improvements to the American military establishment.
FIRST EDITION. Sabin 96159. OCLC 504263679 [3] [as of June 2015], and many facsimiles.
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ESSAY ON THE NECESSITY OF IMPROVING OUR NATIONAL FORCES. BY... FORMERLY OFFICER OF LIGHT CAVALRY, AID-DE-CAMP IN THE FRENCH SERVICE, AND MEMBER OF THE LEGION OF HONOUR
Author
Tone, William Theobald Wolfe
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Publisher
Published by Kirk and Mercein. William Mercein, Printer: New York
Date
1819