history campaigns general pichegru containing von david citizen (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Professionally rebound in full cloth in an attractive gray. No lettering or decorations on the spine; only the bookcloth. Original text block entirely repaired and resewn, with new endpapers and headbands. Text block neat and tight. Pages toned from age. There is a stain at the inner edge of the final 20 pages from a long-ago splash; text remains entirely legible. Text is in English. Scarce in this original (and only) edition in English. Please email with questions or to request photos. If you see a photo beside this listing, please be aware that it's an ABE Stock Photo (whatever that is) and not a photo of this book.

First Edition. Octavo. First edition in English. 268pp. In 1793, Pichegru was given command of 150,000 troops of the army of the North. By 1794 he launched an invasion of the Austrian Netherlands, capturing Amsterdam January, 1795. Pichegru was hailed as a savior of this country. He later began to turn against France's republican regime. In March 1796, he resigned his commission. He later sided with the Royalist deputies. Soon Pichegru was arrested and deported to French Guiana. He escaped and made his way to Germany, then on to England. He secretly entered France and began plotting to overthrow Bonaparte's military regime. He was arrested in Paris February 28. On April 5 he was found strangled. Bound in 3/4 red morocco over red cloth, raised bands with compartments decoratively stamped in gilt depicting an eagle and bee, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, from the library of Roy Hamilton Stephens with his armorial bookplate. A fine copy.