Treatise on Fortification. by Major Hector Straith (1858)

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Straith, Major Hector. Treatise of Fortification and Artillery (7th Edition). London: Wm.H.Allen & Co. (1858); 382 pages, 217+ illus. Price 39.00 {Item No.4599} [The Fortification Treatise part of the book]

• Preface to the Seventh Edition of Straith’s Treatise on Forfication; 4 pages Price .50 {Item No.20781} [Useful notes on the technical modeling using for this manual]
• A comprehensive glossary of technical terms in Fortification; 35 pages, 1 fig. Price 4.00 {Item No.20782}
• Chapter I. Amount of labour, Facilities for a forward movement, Method of finding solid contents of parapet, Trench of more roomy dimensions, Rocky or marshy soils, Substituting a ditch for a trench, Further means of strengthening field works, An expeditions way of forming an obstacle, Works of a more important character, Some particulars respecting the slopes, Works on the slope of a hill, Remarks on profiling field works, Amount of excavation, Method of calculating the deblai of a work, Rule for calculating the number of fascines required, On the method of making gabions, On sap rollers and hurdles, Revetments for field works, Bridges of communication, On the various obstacles used, Palisades and fraises, Remarks on stockades, Blockhouses, Stockade revetments, Barrier gates, Remarks on abattis, Remarks on trous-de-loup, Remarks on chevaux-de-frize, Remarks on Fougasses; 29 pages, 33 illus. Price 3.00 {Item No.20783}
• Chapter II. Leading principles, Redan, and redan with flanks, Lunettes and double redans, Tenaille heads and bastion heads, Square redoubts, Star forts, Bastion forts and lines of redans, Lines of tenailles, indented and bastion lines, Lines with intervals, Bridge heads; 18 pages, 27 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.20784}
• Chapter III. Half-sunken and sunken batteries, Construction and dimensions of batteries, Rule for dimensions of embrasures, mantlet, Countersloping embrasures, Tracing of an elevated battery, Construction of an elevated battery, Slopes given to the cheeks of embrasures, Gun platforms, Gun and Howitzer platforms, Mortar and Madras platforms, Field powder magazines; 18 pages, 26 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.20785}
• Chapter IV. Necessity for using thick earthen ramparts and parapets, Construction of Vauban’s, first system, Principles observed in tracing Vauban’s first system; 22 pages, 15 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.20786}
• Chapter V. Uses of the various works in Vauban’s first system of fortification; 13 pages, 8 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.20787}
• Chapter VI. On Relief and command, On ditches, Their capacity, Wet and dry, On representing works in plans and sections, Means of communicating between the interior of the fortress, and the country, and between the different works; 19 pages, 12 illus. Price 4.00 {Item No.20788}
• Chapter VII. Defilading, Practical methods of defilading, Inundations, Defense of villages, Interior keeps; 24 pages, 19 illus. Price 3.00 {Item No.20789}
• Chapter VIII. On the Attack of Field Works, Assault by surprise, Attack of field works, Attack of fortified village; 10 pages, 2 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20790}
• Chapter IX. Improvement on the bastion system, The modern system, The faussebraie, Double flank, Chemin-des-rondes, Retrenchments; 18 pages, 13 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.20791}
• Chapter X. On counterguards, Tenaillons and demi-tenaillions, Horn and crownworks, Advanced ditch, covered way and lunettes, Detached forts, Retrenched camps, Citadels; 19 pages, 8 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.20792}
• Chapter XI. Revetments, Counter forts, Piling foundations, Concrete foundations, Revetments; 14 pages, 12 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.20793}
• Chapter XII. On Saps and Mining. Sapping, Jebb’s double sap, Military mining, To sink a shaft, To drive a gallery, and dimensions of galleries, Ventilating and lighting galleries, Light and ventilation, Loading mines, Defensive and offensive mines, Magistral gallery, Envelope gallery, Listening galleries, Tracing of counter mines, Attack of counter mines, On blasting and demolition, Demolition of revetments; 25 pages, 29 illus. Price 3.00 {Item No.20794}
• Chapter XIII. Bomb Proofs and Casements. Bomb proof buildings, Casemates, Casemated batteries, Blinded batteries; 7 pages, 8 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.20795}
• Chapter XIV. The Attack. The Attack, Closing remarks; 22 pages, 4 illus. Price 3.00 {Item No.20796}
• Chapter XV. Remarks on the bastion and other methods of tracing, On the bastion systems of Castriotto; Errard, Marchi, DeVille; Pagan; Vauban; Coehorn; Dufour; Bousmard; and Chasseloup de Laubat. On the tenaille, or redan tracings of Montalembert and Carnot, On the polygonal, Prussian and German tracings, Fortifications at Coblentz; at Cologue and Lintz; 28 pages, 39 illus. Price 3.00 {Item No.20797}
• Chapter XVI. Directions for tracing a front of Vauban’s first system of fortification in elevation, on a principle proposed by Lieut.Cook, Professor of Fortification at Addiscombe; 4 pages, 2 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20798}
• Chapter XVII. The System of fortification proposed by Lieut.Cook Professor of Fortification at Addiscombe; 9 pages Price 1.00 {Item No.20799}
• Index to Fortification; 7 pages Price 1.00 {Item No.20800}
• Appendix A. Contains the names of the works to which Major Straith had recourse in compiling the earlier Editions of this Treatise; 2 pages Price .50 {Item No.20801}
• Appendix B. The mode of ascertaining the amount of excavation necessary to furnish the requisite quantity of earth to form the remblai of any given work; 5 pages, 2 illus. Price .50 {Item No.20802}
• Appendix C. Extract taken from Sir John Jone’s Sieges in Spain; 1 page Price .50 {Item No.20803}
• Appendix D. Defense of Matagorda; 1 page Price .50 {Item No.20804}
• Appendix E. Remarks on Vanban’s Masonry Revetments; 2 pages Price .50 {Item No.20805}
• Appendix F. Rules for Revetments; 2 pages Price .50 {Item No.20806}
• Appendix G. Mining in Loose Sand; 10 pages, 10 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20807}
• Appendix H. Remarks in “Choumara’s Memoires de Fortification”; 2 pages Price .50 {Item No.20808} [For Existing Fortresses, For New Fortresses]
• Appendix I. General Roigniat’s Retrenched Camp; 3 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.20809}
• Appendix K. Professor Bordwine’s System; 5 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.20810} [Fortification Trace]
• Appendix L. Mr.Fergusson’s System; 4 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.20811} [Fortification Trace]
• Appendix M. A Front of Bousmard’s System [Illustration of Fortification Trace] [Should have been on Page 297, It sold as part of Chapter XV]
• Appendix N. Remarks on the Attack of some fortified Posts; 14 pages Price 2.00 {Item No.20812}[Including: Memorandum of the Engineer Operations at the taking of Ghuznee. July, 1839 and other fortified places]

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