Sir John Hall Bart — General Pichegru's Treason

Smith,Elder & Co A Near Fine Copy of this book rebound in red cloth boards with gilt title lettering to spine and upper cover.New endpapers and there are are NO former names or inscriptions present.Binding is firm with no weakness to the hinges.Illustrated with 6 portrait plates in black and white.Jean-Charles Pichegru was a French Army officer who served in the French Revolutionary Wars. Under his command, French troops overran the Austrian Netherlands and Dutch Republic in the Flanders campaign before fighting on the Rhine front. Pichegru's Royalist views subsequently led to his fall from grace and imprisonment in Cayenne following the Coup of 18 Fructidor in 1797. After escaping into exile in London and joining the staff of Alexander Korsakov, he returned to France and planned the Pichegru Conspiracy to remove Napoleon from power, which led to his arrest and suicide.8vo 363pp First Edition Near Fine No Jacket First Edition 1st Printing London 8vo