BIB_ID
342232
Accession number
MA 150.50
Creator
Ironside, Gilbert, fl. 1780.
Display Date
1779 July 30.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 19.7 cm.
Notes
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
By descent to his eldest granddaughter Miss Francis, and in her possession in 1871; sale (London, Sotheby's, 27 November 1897); purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1901.
Summary
Commenting on new military regulations; saying "....the circle of war must be contracted to a smaller circumference, for of what use are a superfluity of troops in any Country, but to exhaust the resources of it, and to confuse the administration by the multiplicity of its objects?--A smaller army well regulated and disposed, and it's whole system within the comprehension of the minds and of the hands, is surely preferable...;" expressing criticism of Sir Eyre Coote's plan "consisting of Little else than an assortment of old Orders, and rules already discust to weariness..."
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