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Flanders Campaign.- [History of the campaign]

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manuscript in French, 243pp. & 4pp. index, ruled in red, later ink inscription by William Granville Eliot (a member of the earl of St. Germans family) on front free endpaper and his bookplate on front pastedown, some browning and soiling, original limp roan wallet style binding, small tear on upper cover, folding flap repaired with modern leather, some riubbing and creasing, folio, [eighteenth century].

***"This book was the property of... Genl Granville Eliot it is a proper book to accompany Beauvain's Military history of Flanders, which contains the campaigns of the Duke of Luxembourg from the commencement of 1690 to October 1694 in two large folio vols. This manuscript is the detail of operations of the army opposed to him from 1692 in continuation of the war to 1702 as Major Genl Roger Eliot father of Genl Granville Eliot served in these wars. I rather imagine it must have descended from father to son. WG Eliot.".

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