Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Text-Book on Field Fortification
IN preparing this text-book for use in the course Of in struction in field fortification at the United States Military Academy, the aim Of the author has been to state brie?y and clearly the principles Of the art, and to illustrate them as far as possible by examples drawn from the experiences Of field armies in recent wars to show the relation which field fortification bears to the tactics of the battle-field and the strategy of campaigns; to modify the types of con struction employed in the course to conform to the condi tions imposed by modern firearms; and to omit the de scription of methods and constructions considered more Or less Obsolete.
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