An introduction to the art of fortification. Containing draughts of all the common works used in military architecture, and of the Machines and Utensils employed in Attacks and Defences; with Brief References for their Explanation. Also, a military dictionary, wherein The said Works and Machines are not only more fully described, but all the other Technical Terms and Phrases made use of in the Science of War, are distictly explained.

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MDCCXLV. [1745]
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London : printed for and sold by John Brindley, Bookseller to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, at the Feathers in New-Bond Street, MDCCXLV. [1745]

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[114],2p.,plates : maps ; 80.

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ESTC T37358

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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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