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Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Until Nelson's success at Trafalgar in 1805 there was a real fear that Napoleon's armies would invade and Sussex was in the front line. In 1798 the first Defence Act sought to establish how many active adult men were capable to serve as wagon drivers, boatmen and the like in the event of evacuation, how many would need to be evacuated and details of vehicles, livestock, stockpiles of provisions. These returns were updated in 1802 and 1803. It has been said that the information collected supplied the British state with the most ambitious and precise taxonomy of its people since the Doomsday Book. lxx, 413pp. Book size 250x180mm.…