Rare Books

Fortification and military discipline : in two parts. The first shews the principles and practice of all manner of fortifications, regular or irregular, as now used by the Dutch, English, Italian, German, and French ingeniers. The dimensions and measures of the rampires, parapets, moats, and all other parts. The delineations of ravelins, halfmoons, tenails, hornworks, crownworks, and cittadels. As also the making of batteries, approaches, trenches, mines, assaults, &c. The second part treats of the rules for the exercise of horse and foot, with all sorts of instructions and other observations belonging to the whole art of war, as now practised. All illustrated with 54 copper plates. Improved and designed by Capt. J.S