A Treatise on Field Fortification: Containing Instructions on the Methods of Layingout, Constructing, Defending, and Attacking, Intrenchments; With ... and Defence of Permanent Fortifications - Hardcover

Mahan, D. H.

 
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Much that appertains to the Engineer's Art 18 but an affair of feet and inches; facts which are the results of long usage, holding, in many in stances, thc important position of principles. His experience has taught him that those authors are the clearest who enter into the minutiae of their subject; and that with pupils of superior minds, a thorough knowledge of details is an invaluable aid in unravelling the difficulties, and retaining the principles of the Art; whilst, with those of limited capacities, a want of such detail leaves them with. The most vague and unsatisfactory notions.

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ISBN 10:  1331288371 ISBN 13:  9781331288374
Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2015
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