Field Fortification. by D.H.Mahan (1848)

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Mahan, D.H. A Treatise on Field Fortification. Containing instructions on the methods of laying out, constructing, defending and attacking intrenchments, with the general outlines also of the arrangement, the attack and defense of permanent fortifications. New York: John Wiley (1848); 168 pages, +12 plates of illus. Price 18.00 {Item No.4575}

• Introductory Chapter. On the Effects of Musketry and Artillery, and means of directing their fire to obtain the best results; 13 pages, 3 tables Price 2.00 {Item No.20884} [Including: Remarks on target practice of small arms, Probable effects of small arms, Ranges and probable effects of field artillery, Selection of positions for field batteries, Management of the fire of batteries,Position of batteries in attacking and defending intrenchments, Effects of batteries for harbor defence]
• Chapter I. Nomenclature and General Principles; 10 pages, 1 plate of illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.20885} [Including: Art of Fortification, Permanent, and field Fortification, Intrenchments, General conditions of intrenchments, General form of the profile, General arrangement of the plan, Flanked disposition, Dead angle, Sector without fire, General outline of the attack of intrenchments, General measures for the defence, General principles of the plan and profile]
• Chapter II. Plan of Simple Intrenchments, or, the Elements of Lines; 7 pages, 2 plates of illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.20886} [Including: Site, command, and relief, Line of direction of fire, Directing line of the plan, Elements of intrenchments, The Redan, The Lunette, The Cremaillere, The Priest-Cap, The Redoubt, The Star fort, The Bastion fort, Relation between the extent of intrenchments and the troops for their defence, Conditions that a Field Fort should satisfy]
• Chapter III. Discussion of the General Profile; 6 pages, 1 plate of illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20887} [Including: General dimensions of the parapet, Command of the interior crest, Thickness of the parapet, Inclination of the superior slope, Inclination of the exterior slope, Inclination of the interior slope, Tread of the Banquette, The Berm, General dimensions of the ditch, Slopes of the Scarp and Counterscarp, Approximate method of regulating the dimensions of the Ditch] [4 tables: Penetration into well rammed earth composed of half sand and half clay, Penetration of musket balls, Penetration (of artillery) into rough good limestone masonry, with charge one third the weight of the ball, Penetration (of artillery) into oak wood with same charge (all tables have rules for calculating various other materiels]
• Chapter IV. Manner of Regulating the Relief of Intrenchments or Irregular Sites; 8 pages, 1 plate of illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20888} [Including: Influence of the site on the plan and relief, Defilement from a direct fire, Defilement from a reverse fire, Method of determining the dimensions of the traverse, for reverse defilement, Defilement of enclosed works, General remarks on the defilement of works]
• Chapter V. Manner of Throwing up a Work; 4 pages, 2 plates of illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20889} [Including: Method of profiling. Estimate of the daily labor of a man working on an intrenchment, Distribution of the working parties, Manner of forming the excavation and embankment, Precaution to be taken in stony soils, Drainage of the Terre-Plein, Time required to construct a work]
• Chapter VI. Revetments; 7 pages, 2 plates of illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20890} [Including: Revetments, Sod revetment, Pisa revetment, Fascine revetment, Hurdle revetment, Gabion revetment, Plank revetment, Sand-bag revetment, Timber revetment of the ditch]
• Chapter VII. Accessory, or Secondary Means of Defence; 8 pages, 2 plates of illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20891} [Including: Remarks on obstacles on the exterior, Artificial obstacles, Troups-de-loup, Abattis, Palisades, Fraises, Stoccades, Chevaux-de-frise, Small pickets, Crow feet, Artificial inundation, Mines]
• Chapter VIII. Interior Arrangements; 18 pages, 4 plates of illus. Price 3.00 {Item No.20892} [Including: Interior arrangements for the defence, Armament of musketry and artillery, Remarks on the employment of artillery, Batteries, Barbette battery, Embrasure battery, Platforms, Powder magazines, Traverses, Enclosures for gorges and outlets, Outlets, Barriers, Safety redoubt, Blockhouses, Ditch Defences]
• Chapter IX. Lines or Complex Intrenchments; 7 pages, 2 plates of illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.20893} [Including: Classes of lines, Principles regulating the plan of lines, Continued lines, Lines with intervals, System of general Rogniat, General observations on lines]
• Chapter X. The Adaptation of Intrenchments to Particular Localities; 16 pages, 2 plates of illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.20894} [Including: Intrenchments of mountainous sites, Intrenchment of forests, Intrenchments of marshes, Intrenchment of rivers, Intrenchments of villages, Military posts, Arrangements of hedges for defence, Arrangement of walls for defence, Barricades, Defensive arrangement of houses, Military positions]
• Chapter XI. Attack and Defence of Intrenchments; 12 pages Price 1.50 {Item No.20895} [Including: Operations preliminary to the attack of intrenchment, Attack by surprise, Attack by open force, Measures to be taken in the defence]
• Chapter XII. Military Communications; 26 pages, 2 plates of illus. Price 3.00 {Item No.20896} [Including: General observations on water course, & c., Reconnaissance of the locality for a bridge, Floating military bridges, General observations on boat bridges, Construction of the Bateau bridge, Operation in breaking up the Bateau bridge, Bridges constructed with ordinary boats, Construction of raft bridges, Flying bridges, Trestle bridges, Temporary bridges, Fords, Passages on ice, Preservation and destruction of bridges, Passage of rivers]
• Chapter XIII. Military Reconnaissance; 6 pages Price .50 {Item No.20897}
• Chapter XIV. Outlines of the General Properties of Permanent Works and the Method of Attacking Them; 6 pages, 2 plates of illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20898} [Including: Permanent fortification, General properties of permanent works, General principles that permanent works should satisfy, Description and properties of the outworks, Object of interior retrenchments, Arrangement of the crest of the glacis, Object of traverses in covered way, Communications of permanent works, Relief and command of the outworks, Uses of counterscarp galleries, Uses of casemates, General outline of the attack of permanent works, General outline of the defence of permanent works, Uses of permanent works]
• Note A. Relation between the Terre-plein and Interior Crest of the Square Redoubt; 3 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.20899} [Manner of determining the proportion between the terre-plein of a Square Redoubt, the development of its interior crest, and the size of its garrision]
• Note B. Method of equalizing the excavation and embankment of a field work; 5 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.20900} [Manner of equalizing the Excavation of the Ditch, and the Embankment of the Parapet]

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