The Art of War in Europe. by Major Richard Delafield (1854, 1855, and 1856)

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Delafield, Richard, Major (Corps of Engineers). Report of The Art of War in Europe in 1854, 1855, and 1856 from his observations made as a member of a Military Commission to the Theater of War in Europe; 283 pages, 186+ illus.(arranged in numerous additional pages of plates)  {Item No.628} Price 80.00 [Another gold mine of information on all sorts of field notes, even covers the management of slicing potatoes, with an detailed account of the Siege of Sebastopol during the Crimea War] [Done under the orders of the Hon.Jefferson Davis, Secretary of War] [Washington: George W.Bowman, Printer (1860)][This document is printed out in 400 sheets of paper]

• Introduction; 12 pages  Price 1.00  {Item No.22301}[Major Delafield instructions and description of his trip to Europe]
• Letter to the Secretary of War; 3 pages  Price .50 {Item No.22302}[Outline of Delafield's observation and decription of what is saw]
• Report; 3 pages, 17 illustrations  Price .50 {Item No.22303} [Artillery, Siege of Sebastopol, a lot on the Rifled Bullets used in various European Armies]
• Breech Loading Small Arms; 2 pages, 1 illus.  Price .50 {Item No.22304} [Carbines and Muskets developments, illustrations is of a holster pistol with attachable but stock]
• Rifled Cannon; 4 pages, 7 illus.  Price .50 {Item No.22305} [Guns and artillery ammunition used at the battle of Sebastopol during the Crimean War and what is in development in Europe in the 1850's: Lancaster Gun, Guncotton, ammunition for rifled artillery]
• Gun Carriages and Casemates; 7 pages, +19 illus.  Price 2.00 {Item No.22306} [Detailed illustrations of Gun Carriages in use]
• Fortifications (General); 6 pages, 9+ illus.  Price 1.00 {Item No.22307} [The state for fortification construction, what is coming down and what is going up, with the reasoning behind it]
• Fortifications (Seacoast and Harbor Defenses); 39+ pages, 24+ illus.  Price 8.00 {Item No.22308} [Siege of Sebastopol: Detailed tactical assessment of the bombarment between the fleet and the casemated coastal forts, the land defenses; Defenses of St.Petersburg: Fort Menchicoff, Kronslot Battery, Fort Paul, Fort Alexander; Fort Peter; Defenses of the Harbor of Sebastopol, Fort Catharine, Ft.Michael, Ft.Alexander, Ft.Nicholas, Ft.Paul; The Siege of Sebastopol (detailed asssement, with many illustrations)]
• Logistics during the Siege of Sebastopol; 40+ pages, 64+ illus.  Price 6.00  {Item No.22309} [Contains an fantanstic amount of detail from the construction detail of wagons to the way the potatoes were sliced for cooking. Including: French bread rations, English bakery ship the Abundance details, Steam factory ship, Hospital ship, Special steam applications, Horse transport ship details, Ambulance and stretchers details (including mule litters and bandages) of the Armies, Tents and shelters, Rations and cooking methods, Mess equipment]
• Transports for Troops and Supplies; 7 pages, 1 illus. Price .50  {Item No.22310} [Troop ship regulations]
• Duties on board ship; 3 pages  Price. 50  {Item No.22311} [Regulations for officers onboard troop ships]
• Embarkation of Horses in Transports; 1 page  Price .50  {Item No.22312} [Regulations and instructions for cavalry officers]
• Soldiers' Wives; 2 pages  Price .50  {Item No.22313} [Regulations concerning]
• Jacobi Mines at Sebastopol, Cronstadt, &c.; 2 pages, 2 illus.  Price .50 {Item No.22314} [Early landmines]
• Use of Telegraph and Electrics Generally in the Crimea; 3 pages, 5 illus.  Price 1.00  {Item No.22315} [Use in Demolitions by the Allies of captured Russian military installations]
• New Method of Setting Fire to Mines by Electricity; 11+ pages, 24+ illus.  Price 2.00 {Item No.22316} [Old method, Fundamental principle, Necessity of employing powerful piles, English process, Intricacy and ineffciency of the old method, New process, Its description, Distinct parts of which it is composed: I. Electric Prime Mover Apparatus or Pile; II. Multiplier of the Current of Induction; III. Electric Conductor; IV. Electric Primers for Mines; Employment of the Means Described for the Explosion of Mine Chambers]
• Harbor Defenses - Cherbourg; 14 Pages, 13+illus.  Price 3.00 {Item No.22317}
• Naval Depot at Toulon; 4 pages, illus.  Price 1.00 {Item No.22318}
• English System of Harbor Defense; 8 pages, 12 illus.  Price 1.00 {Item No.22319}
• Sardinian Naval Depot at Genoa; 3 pages, illus.  Price 1.00 {Item No.22320}
• Austrian System of Harbor Defense; 12 pages, 13 illus.  Price 2.00 {Item No.22321}
• Prussian System of Harbor Defense; 12 pages, 8+ illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.22322}
• Floating Batteries Sheathed with Wrought Iron; 6 pages, 12 illus.  Price 2.00 {Item No.22323} [The First Ironclads in modern times]
• Theory and Practice of Modern Systems of Fortifications; 6 pages, 2 plates of illus.  Price 2.00 {Item No.22324} [Introduction to the following sections on Fortification systems]
• French Systems of Fortification; 25+pages, 11 Plates of illus.  Price 8.00 {Item No.22325} [France has many schools of Fortifications] [School of Mezieres, or the System of Chatillion and Dubigman, A.D.1750; School of Mezieres, under Dobenheim and Lesage, or Modern System; System of Dufour, A.D.1814; System of Noizet, A.D. 1822; System of General Haxo, A.D. 1826; Choumara's System, A.D.1846; Resume of Choumara's Proposed Improvemenrs, Comparison between the theoretic systems, and the recent practice of the French Engineers, as at Paris, Lyons, Grenoble and Bayonne; Forts at Lyons, Forts on the left bank of the Rhone]
• Modern German System of Fortification; 34+ pages, 10 plates of illus.  Price 8.00  {Item No.22326} [Elementary Works of a Front, Independent Defensible Works, Different Traces of the German System, General defects attached to the German System, Application of the German System to the strengthing and modifying existing Fortresses]
• Russian System of Fortification; 6 pages, 2+ illus.  Price 2.00  {Item No.22327}
• Ancient System of Fortification -- Perfect Example of Constantinople; 3 pages, 3 illus.  Price 1.00 {Item No.22328}
• Sables and Barracks for Cavalry; 11 pages, 10 plates of illus.  Price 5.00  {Item No.22329} [French Cavalry Depot - Barracks and Stables; Artillery Stables at Lyons, and Austrian Artillery Stables and Barracks at Vienna]
• Infantry Barracks; 2 pages, 1 Plate of  illus.  Price 1.00  {Item No.22330}
• New Arsenal at Vienna; 4 pages, 2+ illus.  Price 1.00  {Item No.22331} [Best Infantry Barracks found by the author in Europe]
• Military Hospitals; 14 pages, 1+ Plate of  illus.  Price 3.00  {Item No.22332} [Including: Russian Hospital at St.Petersburg (in the authors opinion the best), Military Hospital at Vienna, English Military Depot Hospital at Scutari, French Depot Hospital at Constantinople]
• Index; 9 pages  Price .50 {Item No.22333}
• Plates; 42 Plates, plus 40 pages of illus.  Price 30.00 {Item No.22334} [285 Sheets of paper, the pages of plates and illustrations must be assembled]