Military & Naval.- Bayly (Maj.-Gen. H.) Proceedings in the Island of Guernsey, relative to the Dismissal of Colonel Guille..., first edition, stitched in original blue wrappers, small hole to upper cover, Guernsey, Stanhope Press, 1819 § Whitelocke (Lt. Gen. John) The Proceedings of a General Court Martial...for the Trial..., 2 vol. in 1, first edition, 2 folding engraved maps, browned, contemporary ink signature of Maj.-Gen. R. Vyse to head of titles and with his bookplate, contemporary tree calf, rubbed, rebacked, 1808 § [House of Commons] An Estimate of the Expence of such Parts of the Plan of Fortifications...for the Dock Yards at Portsmouth and Plymouth, docket title, lightly browned, stitched and folded, 1786 § Montagu (John, Earl of Sandwich) The Speech...in the House of Lords...into the Management of Greenwich Hospital, contemporary marbled wrappers, rubbed and creased from folding, T.Cadell, 1779 § [?Keir (James)] Reflexions on the Invasion of Great-Britain by the French Armies, first edition, errata leaf, contemporary ink signature and small hole to head of title, stitched in original wrappers, uncut, spine frayed, Birmingham, 1803, all a little rubbed; and 24 others, military & naval, mostly pamphlets, 8vo & 4to (29)
⁂ The Guilles were a prominent Guernsey family - Jean Guille (1788-1845) was bailiff of the island 1843-45. He was dismissed from his militia command because he allegedly failed to respond to an order, and on account of irregularities in the finances, and matters relating to uniforms. The charges were dismissed and Guille was shortly afterwards reinstated. General Whitelocke's court-martial was the inevitable consequence of his enormous and disastrous ill-judged, and ill-directed, campaign against Spanish forces in Buenos Aires and the Plate region of South America in May-July 1807.
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