Copia da segunda carta, que um amigo militar, escreveu a outro, em que acaba de lhe dar nuticia [sic] dos ultimos Eiszercicios [sic], que fez parte do Eiszercito de Sua Magestade Fidelisima, em o Campo do Serrexão, e dentro do intrinxeiramento de Rio Frio.

Lisbon, Na Oficina de Caietano Ferreira da Costa, 1768.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, disbound. Woodcut ornament on title page. Map (mostly typeset) on p. 4. Somewhat browned. In good condition. Remains of old paper tag in upper inner corner of title page, without loss. Old ink foliation (429-426) in upper outer corners of rectos of each leaf. 16 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of what appears to be a satire on military training, of a "battle" description that consists of marches and counter-marches, digging of ditches trinxeiras), and elaborate maneuvers on the part of cavalry, infantry, and baggage trains.In a minor episode in the Seven Years' War, a Franco-Spanish army invaded Portugal in 1761 at Trás-os-Montes, capturing the towns of Miranda do Douro, Bragança, and Chaves. Portugal's military might had not been a major concern of the Marquês de Pombal, and in order to respond to the invasion, an Anglo-Portuguese army had to be hastily assembled and trained under the command of Wilhelm, Conde de Schaumburg-Lippe (1724-1777). The "Conde de Lippe" conducted a brilliant defensive campaign of marches and counter-marches, so that the enemy, although three-to-one superior in numbers, always met with defenders in a good position and never dared to risk an all-out attack. In fact, not a single major battle was fought, which earned this brief conflict (1761-1763) the name Guerra Fantástica.When the Seven Years' War ended, the Conde de Lippe was invited by D. José I to erect fortifications in Portugal and to reorganize the Portuguese army, tasks which occupied him until 1764. "He was a strict disciplinarian, an indefatigable commander, and an enterprising officer" (J. Smith, Memoirs of the Marquis de Pombal, 1843, I, 333). The author of this work, however, seems to have found Schaumburg-Lippe's methods less than heroic, and perhaps downright silly.The Rio Frio mentioned in the title is probably the river in the district of Bragança. The map on p. 4 (mostly typeset) shows a bend in the Rio Frio. Facing each other across an empty space are the names of various towns in Portugal (i.e., troops from those areas?).The whole work is written in a dialect [Mirandês?]: eiszercicio for exercicio, culuna for coluna, trinxeira for trincheira.*** Martins de Carvalho, Dicionário bibliográfico militar português (1976), I, 445. Coimbra, Miscelâneas 5908, 6804. Not in Innocêncio or Fonseca, Pseudónimos. Not in Guerra Andrade, Dicionário de pseudónimos e iniciais. Porbase locates a single copy, at the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Not located in Jisc. Not located in NUC.