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H. Wager Halleck , A. M. , Lieut. of Engineers, U. S. Army ., Elements of Military Art and Science; or, Course of Instruction in Strategy, Fortification, Tactis of Battles &c., Embracing the Duties of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery and Engineers. Adapted to the Use of Volunteers and Militia., Chapter 11: army organization.—Artillery.—Its history and organization, with a brief Notice of the different kinds of Ordnance, the Manufacture of Projectiles, &c. (search)
illerie Prussienne. Considerations et experiences sur le tir des obus à balles. Bormann. Essai sur les obusiers. Dusaert. Essai sur l'organisation de l'artillerie. Le Bourg. Traite sur l'artillerie, (traduit de l'allemand.) Rouvroy. Bombardier Franfais. Belidor. Memoirs d'artillerie. St. Remy. Essai sur l'usage de l'artillerie dans la guerre de campagno et celle de siege. Dupuget. Memoires sur les nouveaux systems d'artillerie. St. Aubino Treatise on artillery. Miuer. Artificial Fire-Workcs. Jones. Table de tir les canons et obusierso Lombard. On Gunpowder. Antoni. Recherches sur l'artillerie en general. Texier de Norbee. Description de l'art de fabriquer les canons. Monge. Procedes de la fabrication des armes blanches. Vandermondea Manuel de l'artilleur. Durtubie, Traite du mouvement des projectiles. Lombard. Treatise on artillery. Scheel. (Translated from the German.) Traite pratique des feux d'artifice. Morel. Manuel du canonnier marin. Cornibert. New principles of gunnery. Robins
H. Wager Halleck , A. M. , Lieut. of Engineers, U. S. Army ., Elements of Military Art and Science; or, Course of Instruction in Strategy, Fortification, Tactis of Battles &c., Embracing the Duties of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery and Engineers. Adapted to the Use of Volunteers and Militia., Chapter 12: army organization—Engineers.—Their history, duties, and organization,—with a brief discussion, showing their importance as a part of a modern army organization. (search)
scientific troops of the age. The best officers and finest soldiers were obliged to sacrifice themselves in a lamentable manner, to compensate for the negligence and incapacity of a government always ready to plunge. the nation into war, without the slightest care of what was necessary to obtain success. The sieges carried on by the British in Spain were a succession of butcheries; because the commonest materials, and the means necessary to their art, were denied the engineers. Colonel J. T. Jones writes in nearly the same terms of the early sieges in the Peninsula, and with respect to the siege of Badajos, adds in express terms, that a body of sappers and miners, and the necessary fascines and gabions, would have rendered the reduction of the work certain. Colonel Pasley states that only one and a half yards of excavation, per mall, was executed in a whole night, by the untrained troops in the Peninsular war; whereas an instructed sapper can easily accomplish this in twenty