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Our distance from the old world, and the favorable circumstances in which we have been placed with respect to the other nations of the new world, have made it so easy for our government to adhere to a pacific policy, that, in the sixty-two years that have elapsed since the ack...
With the Romans, six years' instruction was required to make a soldier; and so great importance did these ancient conquerors of the world attach to military education and discip...
7. Chapter 7The principal attacks which we have had to sustain, either as colonies or states, from civilized foes, have come from Canada. As colonies we were continually encountering diffic...
14. Chapter 14_Field-Engineering_ includes the making of military reconnaissances, temporary fortifications, and military roads; the planning and construction of military bridges; the attack...
1. Chapter 1Our distance from the old world, and the favorable circumstances in which we have been placed with respect to the other nations of the new world, have made it so easy for our go...
12. Chapter 12It was Philip Augustus, say the French writers, who first introduced engineers (_engigneurs_, or _engignours_, as they were called) into France, and restored the art of sieges....
2. Chapter 2War has been defined, "A contest between nations and states carried on by force." But this definition is by some considered defective, inasmuch as it would exclude all civil wars.
3. Chapter 3_Fortifications, or engineering_, may be considered with reference to the defence of states and the grand operation of armies; or with reference to the details of the constructi...
4. Chapter 4III. We have defined _logistics_ to be that branch of the military art which embraces all the practical details of moving and supplying armies. The term is derived from the titl...
8. Chapter 8In discussing engineering as a branch of the military art, we spoke of the use of fortifications on land frontiers, and their influence on the strategic operations of a campaign...
11. Chapter 11_Artillery_.--Previous to the invention of gunpowder in the thirteenth century, the machines of war were divided between two classes of military men, the engineers (_engignours_...
5. Chapter 5IV. Tactics.--We have defined tactics to be the art of bringing troops into action, or of moving them in the presence of the enemy;--that is, within his view, and within the rea...
9. Chapter 9By the law of the 12th of December, 1790, on the organization of the public force of France, the Army was defined, "A standing force drawn from the public force, and designed to...
6. Chapter 6_Military Polity_.--In deciding upon a resort to arms, statesmen are guided by certain general rules which have been tacitly adopted in the intercourse of nations: so also both...
10. Chapter 10_Infantry_.--Infantry constitutes, in active service, by far the most numerous portion of an army; in time of peace its duties are simple, and, in most countries, of little comp...
13. Chapter 13_Fortification_ is defined,--the art of disposing the ground in such a manner as to enable a small number of troops to resist a larger army the longest time possible. If the wor...