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Instructions patriotiques et militaires, addressées aux anglois, afin de s'opposer aux invasions de l'ennemi, dans les différentes Possessions de sa Majeste', Le Roi de la Grande Bretagne. Précédées de quelques vues nouvelles, relatives à la fortification; soumises au Jugement des Ingénieurs, & des Personnes qui cultivent L'Art de la Guerre. Par un citoyen du monde.
Le Turc, Mr.Date: M,DCC,LXXX. [1780]- Books
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(inscribed to the British land and sea officers.) The British Mars. Containing several schemes and inventions, to be practised by land or sea against the enemies of Great-Britain. Shewing more plainly, the great advantage Britain has over other nations, by being masters at sea. In Two Parts. Part I. contains. The Construction of Boats both to stow in less room in Ships, and goswiftly, to discover an Enemy's Coast, and to land and embark Troops with greater Safety; also to construct Vessels to lye nearer the Shore, to better protect the Troops in landing or embarking; also rolling Defences to be used as floating Batteries, or as Floats for landing Cannon, &c. and for making Defences and Batteries on Shore more expeditiously, and for filling up Ditchee, &c. Also contains a Method to fit old Ships of War and small floating Batteries, to batter land Defences with greater Force; and another Method to fit old Ships of War (that cannot be sunk by Shot) to lye before Batteries and receive the Shot, while other Ships pass by; with Remarks and Observations. Part II. contains Methods to fortify dwelling Houses, that even Women and Children may defend themselves from Indians with small Arms, designed for our Settlements in America, and other Places. Also a new Method of Fortification, and making Batteries. To which is added, an appendix, Containing a Scheme for Manning the British Navy, with less Grievance to the Subject; And a Scheme to employ Seamen: Of a Copper Mine near Hudson's Bay: And of discovering the North-West Passage, or determine there is no such Passage; with Cautions and Directions. By Joseph Robson, engineer. The whole illustrated by eleven plates.
Robson, Joseph.Date: MDCCLXIII. [1763]- Books
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The new method of fortification, as practised by Monsieur de Vauban, Engineer-General of France. Together with a new treatise of geometry. The sixth edition, carefully revised and corrected by the original. To which are now added, a treatise of military orders, and the Art of Gunnery, or throwing of Bombs, Balls, &c. to hit any Object assigned. The whole Work illustrated with thirty-two Copper Plates.
Vauban, Sébastien Le Prestre de, 1633-1707.Date: M.DCC.LXII. [1762]