Elements of Military Art and Science Or, Course Of Instruction In Strategy, Fortification, Tactics Of Battles, &C.; Embracing The Duties Of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, And Engineers; Adapted To The Use Of Volunteers And Militia; Third Edition; With Critical Notes On The Mexican And Crimean Wars.

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...

The 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...

_Field-Engineering_ includes the making of military reconnaissances, temporary fortifications, and military roads; the planning and construction of military bridges; the attack...

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 go...

It 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....

War 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.

_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...

III. 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...

In 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...

_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_...

IV. 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...

By 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...

_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...

_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...

_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...