FORTIFICATION AND MILITARY DISCIPLINE: SHORNCLIFFE ARCHIVE 7.
Code: KT234
Price: £26.50
Catalogue(s): Evans
Category(s): Featured, New Books, Our Publications, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century,
Facsimile of the original 1688 edition plus a new 21pp.illustrated introduction by Stephen Summerfield, 132+70pp., 33 delightful original plates of fortification & 20 equally delightful plates of military discipline additional original plates from Mallet's The Works of Mars…, laminated colour boards. 2025. The Jacobite John Stevens translated Allain Mallet's The Works of Mars or Art of War in 1688, providing a crucial English language study of military engineering and military discipline as used in the early years of the reign of Louis XIV. This is a crucial transitional period from the old pike and shot to the new horse and musket, but also a period where fortifications played a major part in military campaigns.