Practical Instructions for Military Officers: Comprehending a Concise System of Military Geometry, Field Fortification and Tactics of Riflemen and Light Infantry . Also the Scheme for Forming a Corps of a Partisan, and Carrying on the Petite Guerre ... to which is Annexed, a New Military Dictionary ...

John Denio, 1811 - Fortification - 479 pages

Of the importance of a knowledge of fortifi cation with rules for choofing pofts and of the different works with which they may be fortified	30

The manner of fortifying churches mills and other detached buildings	62

Of the manner of fortifying villages	67

Of the corps of a partifan	78

Of the qualifications neceffary in a partiſan and the manner of acquiring the coupdœil	88

Of fubordination	99

CHAPTER VIIIOf the dress arms appointments organi zation and tactics of light infantry and riflemen	108

Of conducting detachments and ſecret marches	227

Of reconnoitring	246

Of the defence of a village or other detached poft occupied by infantry and cavalry	257

Of the attack of redoubts fieldforts vil lages and other detached pofts	296

Of Stratagems for ſurpriſing pofts and deceiving the enemy in the field	313

Of ambuscades	331

Of conducting a retreat	340

A NEW MILITARY DICTIONARY	347

Title	Practical Instructions for Military Officers: Comprehending a Concise System of Military Geometry, Field Fortification and Tactics of Riflemen and Light Infantry . Also the Scheme for Forming a Corps of a Partisan, and Carrying on the Petite Guerre ... to which is Annexed, a New Military ...
Author	Epaphras Hoyt
Publisher	John Denio, 1811
Original from	Harvard University
Digitized	3 Nov 2008
Length	479 pages

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