Introductory Essay to the Study of Fortification, for Young Officers of the Army (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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But it must be thoroughly understood that, in order to obtain an intelligent knowledge of the whole subject, an officer must proceed to study larger and more elaborate works; and especially that he should make himself acquainted with the principles of the great arm of Artillery, with out which, no enlarged conceptions can be formed of the powers either of attack or defence. It is Artillery combined with Musketry, that ani mates military works; and such is the present power of Artillery that it may be safely said to be double what it was when the great masters of the art, Vauban, Coehorn, Bousmard, &c., wrote their able treatises on Fortification.

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