or, alphabetical explanation of technical terms : containing, among other matter, a succinct account of the different systems of fortification, tactics, & c. : also the various french phrases and words that have an immediate, or relative, connection with the british service, or may tend to give general information on military subjects in either language

in which are explained the terms of the principal sciences that are necessary for the information of an officer

or Oxford Blues, its services, and the transactions in which it has been engaged from its first establishment to the present time