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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 edition. Excerpt: ... ELEMENTS OF PERMANENT FORTIFICATION. CHAPTER I. PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS AND COMPONENT ELEMENTS OF PERMANENT DEFENCES. SUMMARY. Permanent fortification, its objects and means of attainment (Art. 1).--Description and analysis of the usual general profile (Art. 5).--Description of recent modified profile (Art. 8).--Command (Art. 9).--Description and discussion of scarps (Art. 10).--Counterscarps (Art. 11).--Ditch (Art. 12),--Face covers (Art. 13).--General remarks on the general profile (Art. 14).--Classes of open defences (Art. 15).--Loop-holed „walls (Art. 16).--Exterior corridors (Art. 17).--Barbette batteries (Art. 18).--Embrasure batteries (Art. 19).--Machicouli defences (Art. 20).--Detached scarp walls (Art. 21).--Semi-detached scarp walls (Art. 22).--Scarp galleries (Art. 23).--Counterscarp galleries (Art. 24).--Bastionnets (Art. 25).--Caponniere defences for enceinte ditch (Art. 26).--General Remarks (Art. 27).--Casemates on land fronts (Art. 28).--Mortar casemates (An. 29).--Casemates for water fronts (Art. 30).--Embrasures of casemates (Art. 31).--Bomb-proof buildings (Art. 32).--Powder magazines (Art. 33).--General remarks on communications (Art. 34).--Particular conditions that communications should satisfy (Art. 35).--Ramps (Art. 36).--Stairs (Art. 37).--Posterns (Art. 38)--Gateway (Art. 39).--Port-Cullis (Art. 40).--Classes of enceintes (Art. 41).--Systems and methods of fortification (Art. 42).--General remarks (Art. 43).--General remarks on outworks (Art. 44).--General conditions outworks should satisfy (Art. 45).--Classes of outworks (Art. 46).--Covered-way (Art. 47).--Places of arms (Art. 48).--Traverses (Art. 49)--Tenaille (Art. 50).--Demi-lune (Art. 51).--Counterguard (Art. 52).--Redoubts (Art. 53).--Tenaillon...
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