Prussia in 1833.

£125 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

“This little work is but a transcript of notes made during a residence at Berlin of twenty days, and during a journey of twenty-six days in going and returning. I must, however, make an exception as to what I have said upon the military institutions of Prussia; this has been the result of much reflexion and enquiry.” [From the Author’s Preface] This copy inscribed as “Presented to the U[nited] S[ervices] C[lub] by the translator - Major Brereton, Royal Artillery”. Brereton, a veteran of the Peninsula and Waterloo, where he was severely wounded, must have felt this paper by his fellow artillery officer to be of sufficient topical interest to deserve translation. A couple of corrections in Brereton’s hand to the Appendix.

• Year: 1834

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