Elements of Military Art and Science - Or, Course Of Instruction In Strategy, Fortification, Tactics Of Battles, &C.; Embracing The Duties Of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, And Engineers; Adapted To The Use Of Volunteers And Militia; Third Edition; by Henry Wager Halleck
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des Campagnes de 1814 et 1815, en France_. Vaudoncourt.
_Essai sur l'Art Militaire, &c._ Carion-Nisas. _Histoire de l'Expédition en Russie en 1812_. Chambray. _War in Spain, Portugal, and the South of France_. John Jones. _Peninsular War_. Napier. _Notices of the War of 1812_. Armstrong All the above are works of merit; but none are more valuable to the military man than the military histories of Jomini and Kausler, with their splendid diagrams and maps.] CHAPTER III. FORTIFICATIONS. _Fortifications, or engineering_, may be considered with reference to the defence of states and the grand operation of armies; or with reference to the details of the construction, and attack, and defence of forts, and the influence of field-works on the tactical manoeuvres of armies. It is proposed to speak here only of its general character, as a |
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