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This was the first manual to be published in France,here in the
version translated into English by the English dancer, dancing
master and writer John Essex. The manual describes, using
Feuillet's own dance notation system, motions for the feet and
arms, how the dance corresponds to the music, and rules for
performance. Additionally, floor plans and music for ten dances are
given. Feuillet also suggests appropriate steps. Performed as a
series of figures by a column of men facing a column of women, the
English country dance was a popular ballroom dance during the
eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly
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edition identification: ++++British LibraryT116429Dedication
signed: John Essex.London: printed, and sold by John Brotherton,
1722. xl, 2],134p.; 8
Maverick Soldier is the forthright, nuts-and-bolts account of John
Essex-Clark's unmatched experience as a warrior, leader and
teacher. Its telling is all of a piece with the man himself-bluff,
astute, no-nonsense. In the course of stumbling, as he puts it,
from the rank of private to brigadier, Essex-Clark has fought in
wars with the Australian, British, United States and Rhodesian
armies, and has led in battle Malay, South African, Rhodesian,
Vietnamese, British, New Zealand, United States and Australian
soldiers. In peacetime came tours of duty in North America and
Western Europe. Nicknamed 'Digger' by the Rhodesian Army and 'The
Big E' in the Australian, he led by force of personality, drive,
common sense and self-confidence. Military readers and armchair
witnesses to war will be challenged by his trenchant and timely
views on army obsession with technology and the paucity of subtle
tactical thinking. Various controversies are aired- whether we were
'pussyfooters' in Vietnam; bastardization at Duntroon; how best to
conduct counter-terrorism. He is angered by what he sees as a
'surfeit of military dilettantes and budding bureaucrats and a
dearth of w
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