Jun 19, 2003 - Sale 1974

Sale 1974 - Lot 390

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(MILITARY.) Delafield, R. Report on the Art of War in Europe in 1854, 1855 & 1856. 81 maps and plates, including hand-colored lithographed views. Thick 4to, publisher's cloth, defective; internally quite clean. Washington, 1861

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Detailed study of the military strategies used during the Crimean War, particularly at Sebastopol. The volume was published at the beginning of the Civil War when the lessons of the Crimean disaster might be viewed as warnings to the Union strategists.