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[GREAT BRITAIN, ARMY]. [By Authority.] A List of the General and Staff Officers and of the Officers in the several British, foreign and Provincial Regiments, serving in North America, Under the Command of...Sir Henry Clinton. New York: MacDonald & Cameron, 1779.
8o (192 x 120 mm). Collation: A-K4, interleaved with blank leaves as issued. (A few early leaves with corners renewed, lacks K3 and K4 [pp. 63, 64 and 65], these suppied in facsimile.) Half brown morocco, uncut, preserving original marbled paper wrappers.
THE OFFICIAL REGISTER OF THE BRITISH ARMY IN AMERICA, 1779: DETAILING REGULARS, HESSIANS AND LOYALIST PROVINCIAL REGIMENTS. An extremely rare army list, probably printed in a very small edition in British-occupied New York for the restricted use of the British and allied troops serving in America. Most copies were probably discarded by the end of the war. The same printers issued an Army list in 1777 (Evans 15335) and one in Philadelphia in 1778 (Evans 15824). This, for 1779, was apparently the last published in America. On A2r, underneath General and Commander in Chief Sir Henry Clinton are listed aides de camp, including "Captain John André." Army surgeons are listed, then regiments in numerical order; Hessian Corps take up fully 13 pages and Loyalist (Tory) regiments 9 pages. Evans 16295. VERY RARE.
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THE OFFICIAL REGISTER OF THE BRITISH ARMY IN AMERICA, 1779: DETAILING REGULARS, HESSIANS AND LOYALIST PROVINCIAL REGIMENTS. An extremely rare army list, probably printed in a very small edition in British-occupied New York for the restricted use of the British and allied troops serving in America. Most copies were probably discarded by the end of the war. The same printers issued an Army list in 1777 (Evans 15335) and one in Philadelphia in 1778 (Evans 15824). This, for 1779, was apparently the last published in America. On A2r, underneath General and Commander in Chief Sir Henry Clinton are listed aides de camp, including "Captain John André." Army surgeons are listed, then regiments in numerical order; Hessian Corps take up fully 13 pages and Loyalist (Tory) regiments 9 pages. Evans 16295. VERY RARE.