1860 Historical Record of the Fifty-Second Regiment (Oxfordshire Light Infantry) From the Year 1755 to the Year 1858

Description

Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

The first edition of Captain William Scarth Moorsom's historical account of the Oxfordshire 57th light infantry regiment, between 1755 and 1858.

The regiment first saw active service during the American War of Independence, with later involvement in the Napoleonic Wars and Peninsular Campaign.

Illustrated with a frontispiece, and twenty-four further plates, including nineteen coloured maps and three chromolithograph plates. Collated, complete.

To the front pastedown is the inscription of G. W. Windham Clive, of the 52nd regiment, dated February 1860.

To the front free endpaper is the inscription of Maurice G. Jove of the Society for Army of Historical Research and the Military Historical Society. Jove has annotated the work throughout, with numerous neat marginal notations.

A detailed account of the history of this regiment during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.