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EMWWeb Wish List

This is a list of documents, sources and data that would be useful to have in digital form.

The items listed below are simply possibilities, and will depend on copyright and data-entry issues. If anyone has any ideas on what copyright issues are involved for posting digitized versions of old works (e.g. does the owning library hold copyright?) and the willingness of modern publishers to publish academic data contained in their works on a not-for-profit, research-oriented website, please contact me.

List of sources provided by historians:

• John Lynn and George Satterfield, A Guide to Sources in Early Modern European Military History in Midwestern Research Libraries. 2nd ed. (Urbana, IL: Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security, 1994). Now available online here.
• Appendix I: Entries Classified under Military Headings, in John Lynn, "The Treatment of Military Subjects in Diderot's Encyclopédie." The Journal of Military History 65 (January 2001)

I have already digitized many of the following primary sources, and hopefully there will not be any copyright issues that would preclude me from posting them on EMWWeb at some point in the future. This, of course, would depend on others' willingness to contribute their own sources to the collection.

• Correspondence of John Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough (9 volumes).
• A number of siege journals of sieges during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714), including those found in Vault and Pelet's Mémoires militaires relatifs à la succession d'Espagne sous Louis XIV, extraits de la correspondance de la cour et des généraux.
• Various other primary sources published in 19th century local journals

The following reference lists would also be useful for people constructing their own databases on early modern warfare, and should not have any copyright issues attached to them:

• Regiments: listing regiment names, dates raised, colonels and their dates of service, branch, number of batallions or squadrons, what theates and events they served in when, etc. A number of websites already include much of this information, but it would be nice to have it in a format that was easy to import into existing databases (e.g. tables or worksheets).
• People: names of important people (e.g. generals and politicians) with their vital statistics.
• Places: lists of place names, including towns, provinces and countries, as well as where they are located within them. This type of information could be imported into a GIS for historical analysis.
• Keywords: I have developed a several-hundred entry list of keywords I use to code my documents in my database. I would appreciate suggestions and comments on it. Potentially, this list could be used as the foundation of a way to share coded, digital information between scholars. Such a list could also be used to sort and find relevant items on this website.

Many of the following sources would be of interest to me (I have hard copies of most of them), but I won't be digitizing many of them anytime soon. So if anyone wants to volunteer...

• Boislisle, A. de, ed. Mémoires de Saint-Simon. 40 vols. (Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1881-1907). - unlikely since it's so long but it would be nice to have digitized
• Cosnac, comte de and Edouard Pontal, eds., Mémoires du marquis de Sourches [Louis François du Bouchet] sur le règne de Louis XIV. (Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1882-1912).
• A number of letters found in the English Royal Historical Manuscript Commission
• Deane, John Marshall, A Journal of the Campaign in Flanders. (London, 1846).
• Hare, Francis, An exact journal of the campaign in Germany, for the year 1704. Under the conduct of his excellency John Duke of Marlborough,... Also an account of the Siege of Landau. (London: J. Nutt, 1704).
• Mengin, G., Rélation du siège de Turin en 1706. (Paris, 1832).
• Mérode-Westerloo, Comte de, Mémoires du Feld-Maréchal Comte de Mérode-Westerloo, Chevalier de la Toison d'Or, Capitaine des Trabans de l'Empereur Charles VI, etc. (Brussels, 1840).
• Vauban, Sebastien le Prestre de, D'attaque et de la defense des places. (Hague: Pierre de Hondt, 1737).
• La Colonie, Jean-François Martin de, ed. The Chronicles of an Old Campaigner. (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1904). New
• French edition: Anne-Marie Cocula, ed. Mémoires de Monsieur de La Colonie, maréchal des armées de l'électeur de Bavière, (Paris, 1992)
• Berwick, Jacques Fitz-James Stewart, duc de, Mémoires du Maréchal de Berwick écrits par lui-même. Avec une suite abrégée depuis 1716, jusqu'à sa mort en 1734; précédés de son Portrait, par Milord Bolingbroke, & d'une ebauche d'Eloge historique, par le Président de Montesquieu; terminés par des Notes & des Lettres servant de pièces justificatives pour la campagne de 1708. Translated as: Memoirs of the Duke of Berwick (2 vols, London, 1779) and  Memoirs of the Marshal Duke of Berwick written by himself  2 vols. (Switzerland: chez les Libraires Associés, 1778).
• Boyle, Roger, Earl of Orrery, A treatise of the art of war. (London: T.N. for Henry Herringham, 1677).
• Coehoorn, Menno, baron van, Nouvelle fortification, tant pour un terrein bas et humide, que sec et eleve: Representee en trois manieres, sur le contenu interieur de l'hexagone a la francoise, ou l'on fait voir quelle est la forces des fossez secs modernes, et de ceux qui sont pleins d'eau. Avec une methode moderne de fortifier les places maritimes... Comme aussi, l'attaque de chaque methode, comparee tant en sa force particuliere qu'en sa depense, a la pratique de fortifier les places a la francoise. Par feu Minno Baron de Coehorn. Augm. de ce qu'il y a de plus curieux a savoir dans l'art de la guerre, tant par mer que par terre. (La Haye: Henry van Bulderen, 1706).
• Feuquières, Antoine de Pas, marquis de, Mémoires sur la guerre. 4 vols. (Amsterdam: Jean Frederic Bernard, 1734).
• Folard, Jean Charles, chevalier de, Histoire de Polybe...avec un commentaire. 6 vols. (Paris: P. Gardovici, 1727-30).
• Goulon, Louis, Memoires pour l'attaque, et la défense d'une place par Monsieur Goulon. Nouvelle edition corr. & augm. de la relation du siege de la ville d'Ath. Et des memoires de M. de Vauban, intitules Le directeur des fortifications. Nouvelle edition ed. (The Hague: Pierre Gosse, 1730).
• Guignard, L'Ecole de mars, ou mémoires instructifs sur toutes les parties qui composent le Corps Militaire en France, avec leurs origines, et les différentes maneuvres auxquelles elles sont employés. 2 vols. (Paris: chez Simart, 1725).
• Landsberg, J.H., Nouveau projet d'une citadelee confronte... (La Haye, 1718).
• Parker, Capt. R., Memoirs of the Most Remarkable Military Transactions... (Dublin, 1746).
• Saxe, Maurice de, Les Rêveries, ou mémoires sur l'art de la guerre. (The Hague, 1756).
• Bishop, Matthew, Life and Adventures of Matthew Bishop of Deddington in Oxfordshire. Containing an account of several actions by sea battles and sieges by land, in which he was present from 1701 to 1711, interspersed with many curious incidents, entertaining conversations and judicious reflections written by himself. (London: Printed for J. Brindley, 1744).

Other suggestions are always welcome.

Last Edited 10/22/2002