Aide Memoire to The Military Sciences (1853-1862)

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Aide Memorie to The Military Sciences. Framed from contributions of officers of the different services, and edited by a committee of the Corps of Royal Engineers. London: John Weale, High Holborn

Vol.I. Abattis to Ford (1853); 544 pages, plus plates of illustration and many other illustrations Price 68.00 {Item No.20261} [Originally edited by a committee of the Corps of Royal Engineers 1853, 2nd edition corrected]

• Sketch of the Science and Art of War; 30 pages Price 3.00 {Item No.20264} [Includes: Introductory remarks, I. Stragtegics, II. Tactics, III. Logistics, Stragetics. Fundamental maxim of War, Plan of a campaign, Offensive operations, Defensive operations, Tactics: Battles, Orders of battle, Positions, Attack, Retreat, Pursuit, Sieges, Logisitics]
• Abattis; 2 pages, 2 illus. Price .50 {Item No.20265} [Cut tree obstacles]
• Ammunition; 3 pages Price .50 {Item No.20266} [General table of ammunition of ordnance, showing nature and weight, etc.]
• Anemometer; 17 pages, 4 plates of illus. (with 23 illus.) Price 2.00 {Item No.20267} [Wind measure or gauge]
• Anti-Corrosion; 1 page Price .50 {Item No.20268} [For artillery pieces]
• Artillery; 27 pages, 4 plates of illus. and many tables Price 4.00 {Item No.20269} [Includes: Introduction, Section I.Artillery subjects, Section II. Administration of artillery, Section III. Application and proportion of artillery, Section IV. Types batteries, Section V. Heavy artillery: Native of ordnance, Quantity of ordnance, Section VI. Construction of artillery, Artillery tables A-J]
• Attack of Fortresses; 31 pages, 2 plates of illus. Price 4.00 {Item No.20270} [Includes: Number of troops for a siege, Officers of engineers, Stores, Investment, Encampments, and Lines of circum- and counter-vallation, &c., up to the opening of the trenches, Object and Principles of Attacks, Principles that may serve to guide the determining of the front for attack, Preparation for opening the trenches, Military labour, Arrangements peculiar to the engineer Department, Direction to the officers and engineers, and their distribution, Opening of the trenches and first parallel, Sorties, Second parallel, Of the means of reducing the defenses and subduing the fire of the place: Enfilade, Ricochet, Direct fire of artillery to ruin the parapets, Musketry, Pierriers or stone mortars and coehorns, & c.. Third parallel]
• Attack of Posts; 16 pages Price 2.00 {Item No.20271} [Includes: Introduction, Surmounting obstacles, How to Deal with an abattis, How to overcome other impediments, Of attacks by surprise, Distribution of the assailants, &c., Of the attack, Blowing open barriers, &C., Securing possession of a post after a surprise, Of attacks by open force, Attack of an intrenched village, Attack of fleche, earth-work, open in the rear, a redoubt, &c.. Attack of a fortified building]
• Attack of Posts: Appendix: Assault; 3 pages, Price .50 {Item No.20272}
• Barometer; 10 pages and tables Price 1.00 {Item No.20273} [Includes: Introduction, Mr.Hewlett's Tables, Times of observation, [For determination of height above sea level]
• Barricade; 4 pages, 1 plate of illus. Price .50 {Item No.20274} [Includes: Barricading in towns, Barricading on the outskirts of towns]
• Barrier; 2 pages, 1 plate of illus. Price .50 {Item No.20275}
• Barrel; See 'Bridge, Cask'
• Battery; 32 pages, 21 illus. plus 4 plates of illus. Price 4.00 {Item No.20276} [Includes: Preliminary remarks, Siege batteries: Section I. Definition, Section II. Batteries for the first object, or destruction of defences, Section III. breaching batteries, Section IV. Construction of batteries for ruining the defences, Section V. Trace of the elevated battery for guns or howitzers on the natural level of the soil, Section VI. Construction of batteries for the destruction of defences, Section VII. Breaching and counter batteries, Section VIII. Revetting siege batteries: Sandbags, Gabions, Fascines, Revetment of mortar batteries. , Section IX. Platforms--Common oblong batteries: Introduction, Madras platform, Siege gun and mortar platforms, invented by Lt.Gen.Alderson, R.E.. Section X. Traverses, Section XI. Magazines, Tracing and execution of a triangular field magazine, Section XII. Remarks on siege platforms: Introduction, Elevating battery, built on the natural surface of the ground, Half sunken battery, Full sunken battery. Section XIII. Position and construction of field batteries, Battery Tables I-VIII]
• Blindage; 3 pages, 3 plates of illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20277} [Shelters against artillery fire] [Includes: Introduction, Horizontal blindage, Sloping blindages, Blindages made with small scanting]
• Block; 1 pages, 1 table Price .50 {Item No.20278} [Weight table for blocks made out of Wood, Iron, and Metal]
• Blockade, Military; 2 pages Price .50 {Item No.20279}
• Blockhouse; 2 pages, 3 plates of illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20280}
• Boat; 3 pages, 4 plates of illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20281} [Includes: Details for a Ship's launch, Carronade fitments for a ships launch, four oared gig, and Dingy]
• Bombardment; 4 pages Price .50 {Item No.20282} [Includes: General, Value of mortars at a siege, Strength of arches]
• Boom; 4 pages, 1 plate of illus. Price .50 {Item No.20283} [Includes: General, Details of construction for chain boom, Hemp cable booms]
• Breach; 3 pages Price .50 {Item No.20284} [Breach effected by artillery in fortifications, etc.] [Includes: Historical examples of effects]
• Bridge, Permanent; See "Passage of Rivers"
• Bridge, Field; 23 pages, plus 18 plates illus. Price 5.00 {Item No.20285} [Includes all of the articles on Bridges in this publication]
• Bridge, Pontoon, Rafts, General Equipment, Ect.; 9 pages, 6 plates of illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.20286} [Includes: General, Definitions, Detachments for pontoon carriages, To pack the carriage, Forming the bridge, Rafting out, The duties of raft detachments, To dismantle the bridge]
• Bridge, Boat; 1 page, 1 plate of illus. Price .50 {Item No.20287}
• Bridge, Rope; 2 pages, 2 plates of illus. Price .50 {Item No.20288}
• Bridge, Boat and Rope; 2 pages, 1 plate of illus. Price .50 {Item No.20289}
• Bridge, Cask; 2 pages, 1 plate of illus. Price .50 {Item No.20290} [Bridge made out of barrels] [Includes various types of barrels]
• Bridge, Trestle; 2 pages, 1 plate of illus. Price .50 {Item No.20291}
• Bridge, Raft; 1 page, 2 plates of illus. Price .50 {Item No.20292}[References: Laisne's 'Aide-Memorie', which we also have available]
• Bridge, Pile and Spar; 3 pages, 2 plates of illus. Price .50 {Item No.20293}
• Bridge, Flying, Swing; 2 pages, 1 plate of illus. Price .50 {Item No.20294}
• Bridge, Flying, Trail; 2 pages, 1 plate of illus. Price .50 {Item No.20295}
• Bridge, Reconstruction of; 1 page, 2 plates of illus. Price .50 {Item No.20296}
• Bridge, Field, Demolition of; 1 page Price .50 {Item No.20297}
• Bridge, Masonry, Demolition of; 3 pages, 1 plate of illus. Price .50 {Item No.20298} [Includes: General and Demolition of wooden bridges]
• Buffalo; 1 page Price .50 {Item No.20299} [Just a comment on their lack of suitablity]
• Bullock; 1 page Price .50 {Item No.20300} [As Draft animals]
• Cable, Chain; 3 pages, 1 plate of illus. Price .50 {Item No.20301} [Includes: Size, weight, and strengths of chain cable and common chain, Specification for chain cable]
• Cable, Hemp; 2 pages Price .50 {Item No.20302} [Includes: Table of weights and strengths of cables and hawsers use for naval ships, up to 26 inches in diameter]
• Camel; 1 page, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.20303}
• Camp, Intrenched; 2 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.20304}
• Caponiere; 2 pages, 2 plates of illus. Price .50 {Item No.20305} [Ditch fighting bunker]
• Capstan, Field; 2 pages, 2 illus. Price .50 {Item No.20306} [Portable windlass for field use]
• Carcass; See Pyrotechny
• Carriage (Land and Sea Service); 12 pages, 27 plates of illus. Price 6.00 {Item No.20307} [Includes: I. Land service: Field and mountain service, Field batteries of position, Siege carriages, Garrison carriages. II. Sea service: Carriages for ship-board, Carriages for boat service, Carriages for field service, Mortars, Material employed] [Many tables and illustrations]
• Carriages, Depression; 3 pages, 3 plates of illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20308} [Special carriages designed to be depressed]
• Cask; See Bridge, Cask
• Castramentation; 7 pages, 1 plate of illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20309} [Includes: General, Hutting, Outposts]
• Chain; See Cable, Chain
• Chevaux-de-Frize; 1 page Price .50 {Item No.20310} [Movable wooden spike obstacle]
• Combustion, Spontaneous; 1 page Price .50 {Item No.20311} [Unexplained fires]
• Command; 5 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.20312} [Siege notes] [Abridged from 'Sieges in Spain' by Major General Sir J.T.Jones]
• Compass, Harris's Magneto-Electric; 1 page Price .50 {Item No.20313} [Notes on compasses]
• Contouring; 4 pages, 2 plates of illus. Price .50 {Item No.20314} [Map making]
• Dam, Permanent; See River Navigation
• Dam, Temporary; 4 pages, 2 plates of illus. Price .50 {Item No.20315} [Includes: Application, Choice of site, Construction in rocky sites, Construction when the ground is soft, Construction when timber is plentiful, Construction when timber is scarce]
• Defense of Building and Village; 14 pages, 4 plates of illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.20316} [Includes: Of placing building, &c. in a state of defense, Collecting materials, Barricading doors, Barricading windows, Leveling obstructions outside, Ditches in front of the doors, &c., Loopholes, Communications, Abattis, Tamdours, Out-buildings and walls Defense of Villages, Guarding and defending an intrenched village] [by Lt.Col.Jebb]
• Defensive Elements; 9 pages, 2 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20317} [The use of vegetation for fortifications, and the effect of rifle fire on different colors of uniforms]
• Defence of Fortresses; 25 pages, 3 illus. plus 1 plate of illus. Price 3.00 {Item No.20318} [Includes: The reconnaissance of the ground outside the place, The reconnaissance of the fortification, Of the artillery and ammunition, Of the engineers, and the materials relating to the defence, Of the provisions, and the other matters belonging to the commissariat, Returns of stores and materials; of provisions; and of arrangements to prevent fire, Of those preparations for defence with belong to the state of war, and especially on the prospect of a siege, Of the state of siege, divided into five heads; and treating of irregular attacks, which may place a fortress suddenly in a state of siege: First head, Second head, Third head, Fourth head, Fifth head. Of sieges, or regular attacks: first head, second head, Third head. Appendix I: Proportion of artillery necessary. Appendix II: Proportion of officers of engineers, sappers and miners, and engineer stores, necessary for a siege. Appendix III: Provisionment of fortified places. Appendix IV. Appendix V. Mining operations which may be undertaken in the defence of fortresses without countermines][References articles: Bridge, Blindage, Coast Defences, Defensive elements, Boom, Bombardment, Defense of coasts, Blockade, military, Attack, Defensive precautions, Fougass, Military mine, Sapping, Battery]
• Defensive Precautions; 3 pages Price .50 {Item No.20319} [Includes: Masking works, Chains of advanced sentries, Defensively]
• Defence of Coasts; 12 pages, 6 plates of illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.20320} [Includes: General considerations, The nature of works most suitable for coast defences, Appendix I. Platforms--traversing, iron. Appendix II. Service sur les cotes] [References article: Artillery]
• Defilade; 9 pages, 15 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20321} [The Firing technique of avoiding being enfiladed, or preventing the unnecessary exposure of the exterior or interior of fortifications]
• Demolitions of Works and Buildings; 29 pages, 14 illus. plus many table Price 3.00 {Item No.20322} [Includes: Revetments, Towers, Magazines, Buildings, Cisterns, Bridges, Barrier gates, Locks and gates, Booms, Appendix A. Demolition of the left face and flank of the Glaciere bastion, in 1828, by the 5th company of Royal Sappers and Miners. Appendix B., Appendix C. Report on the demolition of the revetments of some of the old works at Sheerness, on Saturday, July 14th, 1827: General description, Project of demolition, Effect. Appendix D. Banagher bridge. Rooskey bridge. Appendix E. General notes] [References article: Epaulement]
• Demolition of Artillery; 2 pages Price .50 {Item No.20323} [Includes: Complete demolition: Iron guns, Brass guns, Temporary disablement]
• Derrick (Sheers, &c.); 4 pages, 3 plates of illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20324} [Includes: General, Derrick, Getting in the bowsprit by the fore-yard, To get in a new mast by the old one, without sheers. Sheers: Getting in lower masts and bowsprit, Gyn]
• Dialling; 3 pages, 1 plate of illus. Price .50 {Item No.20325} [Compass dialling]
• Disembarkation and Embarkation; 25 pages, 5 illus. Price 3.00 {Item No.20326} [Includes: Section I. On disembarking and embarking batteries of field artillery: General, Embarking the guns and carriages, Embarking the horses, Disembarking, Embarking when an enemy is present, or close at hand. Disembarking when opposed by an enemy. Section II. Observations on the provision for embarking an equipment of heavy artillery for a siege, Section III. Embarkation of horses, Section III. Disembarkation of infantry.--Regimental arrangements to be made, Advantages, Section V. Fragmentary notices of naval arrangements for disembarking troops, Landing of surf-beaches. Section VI. Instructions for the captain commanding divisions, on landing the troops. Section VIb. Additional instructions for the captain and officers appointed to superintend the debarkation of troops, &c.. Section VIc. General orders, Section VII. Final notes on this article] [References article: Derrick, Bridge: Plate 8]
• Disinfection; See 'Sanitary Precautions'
• Diving Bell; 11 pages, 8 illus. Price 1.50 {Item No.20327} [Includes: Description of the diving bells and machinery, &c. used in the erection of the new pier at horse' point, Milford Haven and Description of a wooden bell employed by Mr.Rendel in the construction of the Lake Bridge, near Plymouth]
• Diving Bell, Dress and Apparatus; 9 pages, 4 plates of illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20328} [On Hard Hat Diving] [Includes: Introduction, Of the air-pumps, Of the air-pipes]
• Draining; 5 pages, 9 illus. Price .50 {Item No.20329} [On draining military works and countryside]
• Electricity, Lightning conductor; 7 pages, 1 plate of illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20330} [Includes: Introduction, Lightning conductors, Application of the preceding and of such information as experience has hitherto supplied, Memorandum of damage done to one of the towers on the coast of Ireland, 13th March 1844]
• Electricity, Electrotype; 12 pages, 11 plates of illus. Price 3.00 {Item No.20331} [On military applications of electricity including tunnel, and submarine mines] [Includes: General, Apparatus, Laws, Applications, Plate descriptions, Working of the apparatus]
• Electric Telegraph; See 'Voltaic Electricity'
• Elephant; 3 pages Price .50 {Item No.20332} [Military uses]
• Embarkation; See 'Disembarkation'
• Embrasure; See 'Loophole'
• Engineer, Military; 14 pages Price 1.50 {Item No.20333} [Includes: Section I. This Corps of Royal Engineers, Section II. The East India Company's Corps of Engineers, Section III. The Prussian Corps of Royal Engineer, Section IV. The Corps du Genie of France] [References articles: Attack of Fortress', 'Battery', 'Ordnance'] [by Major General Lewis, C.B. and R.E.]
• Engineer, Civil; 5 pages Price .50 {Item No.20334} [Includes: Engineer, civil, generally and steam boat]
• Epaulement; 1 pages Price .50 {Item No.20335} [Proper military definition, as a fortification term, not as a part of a uniform]
• Eprouvette; 3 pages Price .50 {Item No.20336} [Gunpowder testing] [Includes: General instructions relative to the proof of gunpowder with gun and mortar epaulettes, Instructions for adjusting and half-pounder gun eprouvette, for ascertaining the strength of powder at the various stations at home and abroad]
• Equipment of Artillery; 33 pages Price 4.00 {Item No.20337} [Includes: Section I. General, Section II. Field artillery, Section III. Siege artillery, Section IV. Abstract of a report of a committee of artillery officers on field artillery equipments, with remarks thereon, Section V. Abstract of observations with reguard to the equipment of a battering train, Concluding remarks, Equipment tables ] [by Major-General Lewis, C.B., R.E.] [References articles: 'Artillery', 'Carriage', 'Fire vertical', 'Mountain artillery']
• Equipment, Engineer; See 'Siege and Engineer Equipment'
• Equipment, Naval; 17 pages, many tables Price 2.00 {Item No.20338} [The distribution of ordnance and related equipment on British ships] [References article: 'Artillery']
• Equipment, American; 6 pages Price 1.00 {Item No.20339} [Includes: Field Train and Siege Train equipment lists ] [From Ordnance Manual, U.S.Government]
• Equipment, Musket-Ball Cartridge; 4 pages, 1 plate of illus. Price .50 {Item No.20340} [British army standard unit ammunition load information]
• Escalde; 9 pages, 12 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.20341} [How to storm a wall using ladders]
• Evolutions of Infantry; 21 pages, 2 plates of illus. Price 2.50 {Item No.20342} [Includes: Introduction, Formations, Composition, Evolutions, Evolutions of the battalion, Changes of formation, Changes of position, Synopsis of the movements of a battalion, Manoeuvers of the line, Double lines, Conclusion, Notes, The march of infantry considered as branch of special tactics: Route marching, Marches of manoeuver.] [Table: Lengths of rates of march established by regulation in several different armies]
• Evolutions of Artillery; 4 pages Price .50 {Item No.20343} [Artillery acting with other troops]
• Evolutions of Cavalry; See 'Manueuver'
• Fascine; 2 pages Price .50 {Item No.20344} [Notes on making]
• Field Sketching; 18 pages, 7 plates of illus. Price 3.00 {Item No.20345} [Includes: Section I. Notices on the apprehension of ground, Preliminary arrangements and instruments, &c. necessary, Orders I & II: The ridge and the water-course, Order III. The coast or horizontal contour line, Section II. Preliminary arrangements for field sketching, Instruments, &c., Sections III and IV, Section III. Section IV. Field sketching before and enemy]
• Fire, Vertical; 2 pages Price .50 {Item No.20346} [High angle mortar fire] [References articles: 'Artillery' Tables E &F, 'Attack', 'Breach', 'Defense of places']
• Fire, Precautions against; 4 pages Price .50 {Item No.20347} [Fire started from bombardment during sieges and fire brigades] [Includes: Introduction (Antwerp shipping attack in 1813-14), Extracts from the 'General Regulations from the London fire engine establishment]
• Fire, Annihilator; 3 pages, 2 illus. Price .50 {Item No.20348} [Fire engine]
• Fire, Cart; 2 pages Price .50 {Item No.20349} [Small fire engine]
• Forage, Bulk and Weight of; 1 page Price .50 {Item No.20350}
• Ford; 2 pages Price .50 {Item No.20351}