The Military On English Waterways 1798-1844.
£12.00
Publisher
Railway and Canal Historical Society.
Place
Mold
Date
1991
Synopsis
With 21 illustrations and 10 maps.
Item Description
8vo. 9 x 7 inches. 100 pp. In pictorial card wrapper. A very good copy. Illustrated in black and white with maps, plans, facsimiles and tables Facsimile endpapers. Decorated by Society's device on title page. A well illustrated history of the army use of Britain's canal network during the period of the French wars and after. It includes a chapter on the Royal Military Canal in Kent and Sussex, constructed as a defence against French invasion, 1804-06. A publication of the Railway and Canal Historical Society, jointly written by Hugh J. Compton, writer on canals.
[Stock No. 27466]
