Digges, Thomas:

$500 · Offered by William Reese Company

ENGLANDS DEFENCE. A TREATISE CONCERNING INVASION: OR, A BRIEF DISCOURSE OF WHAT ORDERS WERE BEST FOR REPULSING OF FOREIGN FORCES, IF AT ANY TIME THEY SHOULD INVADE US BY SEA IN KENT, OR ELSEWHERE. ... This interesting group of military essays and papers was compiled by Thomas Adamson, "Master-Gunner of his Majesty's Train of Artillery," with the hope of awakening his fellow countrymen to the possibility of a French military attack. The whole work is a curious manual of 17th-century military preparedness, with lists of the requirements of a fort, the components needed to equip a train of artillery, and a list of ninety ships of war with respective manpower assigned by Parliament against France.

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