An essay on field fortification : intended principally for the use of officers of infantry, shewing how to trace out on the ground, and construct in the easiest manner, all sorts of redouts and other field works, also, to put into a proper state of defense, posts of different kinds, such as churches, church-yards, old castles, villages, small and large towns, &c., with forty copper-plates / translated from the original manuscript of an officer of experience in the Prussian service, by J.C. Pleydell.

Title & Author:

Publication:

London : Printed for J. Nourse, bookseller to His Majesty, MDCCLXVIII [1768]

Description:

xiv, 184 pages, 40 leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, plans ; . ; 20 cm

Notes:
Probably by Pleydell himself--ESTC.
ESTC, t113870

Subject:

Fortification Early works to 1800.
Military field engineering Early works to 1800.
Military art and science Early works to 1800.
Génie de campagne Ouvrages avant 1800.
Art et science militaires Ouvrages avant 1800.
Fortification.
Military art and science.
Military field engineering.

Form/genre:

Early works.

Added entries:

Pleydell, J. C.
Nourse, J. (John), -1780.

Holdings:

Location: Library cage 259145
Call No.: UG400.E77 (BIB190003)
Status: Available

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