A Course of Elementary Fortification: Including Rules, Deduced from Experiment, for Determining the Strength of Revetments : Treated on a Principle of Peculiar Perspicuity : Originally Published as Part of a Course of Military Instruction, Svazek 2

J. Murray, 1822

COURSE OF ELEMENTARY FORTIFICATION	335

ii	337

Vaubans principal powder magazines described	341

The usual mode of constructing orillons and retired flanks explained	344

The reverse of the orillon defined	345

Of retrenchments	351

of wellgrown trees are the best	359

That ditches palisades and fraises may be used for strengthening	361

The erroneous nature of the common theories of revetments	540

338	546

Specimen of the manner in which mathematical writers have	550

whole of the said mass will add stability to the masonry	552

Of the effect of counterforts in strengthening a revetment	558

Peculiar mode in which loose earth presses on the back of	564

Of the mode of forming a tambour or small keep in the gorge	570

480	575

Mode of drawing the transverse section of a casemated battery	366

The nature of a hornwork explained	368

VOL II	369

That powder magazines are of two kinds	372

Upnor magazine near Chatham described	374

Precautions against damp in constructing galleries and casemated	384

That advanced fleches and redans usually resemble fieldworks	385

That the most useful galleries of countermines are those which	386

and small	393

Of the effects produced by exploding gunpowder in mines	401

RULES for finding the proper extraordinary charges for producing	407

That the roofing planks and side planks of mines are also called	413

The nature and use of counterguards or coverfaces explained	419

That caponiers of communication are usually secured by traverses	438

Offensive mines defined Defensive mines or countermines also	439

The above remark exemplified by figures	444

OF IRREGULAR FORTIFICATION CITADELS AND COUN	458

The term collateral bastions defined	464

That citadels have more often been constructed to overawe	466

Remarks on the form that may be given to casemated redouts	469

In what the advantages of Martello towers consist That such	481

That a great exterior slope although conducive to strength	496

337	502

Dimensions of counterscarp revetments or others	510

defined	516

Of the strength of profile necessary for demirevetments or partial	521

That the tops of the parapets of mortar batteries and the soles	526

That the above construction is not to be recommended for military	533

TABLES I II III IV V VI and VII of experiments tried	579

A rectangular revetment a common sloping revetment and	582

That an arch of equilibration is not to be recommended either	583

340	587

TABLES VIII IX X XI XII and XIII of experiments tried	589

the new principles of revetments laid down	590

Remarks on the superiority which the countersloping profile pos	596

Experiments to ascertain the difference produced in revetments	603

lar purposes explained	607

421	608

That experiments made with small models may be applied with	609

That no revetment should ever be built without coun	614

The dimensions proper for counterscarp revetments	621

That it is in all cases advantageous but in unfavoura	623

The same confirmed by a circumstance that occurred in the execu	627

Of the species of naval force best adapted for contending with	633

mine explained and the use of powder boxes c for	634

Experiments proving the practicability of this principle	638

The nature of curved leaning revctments explained and illustrated	657

That it would be very ill judged if with a view to resist cannon	662

Profile suggested for the same purpose by Capt W Reid of	668

THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED	669

Of the mode of firing conjunct mines	671

Also that a part of the supporting piles of such foundations should	675

That in certain soil piles may be dispensed with and yet that	683

That when towers c are founded on a grating or platform with	689

The tenacity which earth is capable of preserving when it	693

Název	A Course of Elementary Fortification: Including Rules, Deduced from Experiment, for Determining the Strength of Revetments : Treated on a Principle of Peculiar Perspicuity : Originally Published as Part of a Course of Military Instruction, Svazek 2 A Course of Elementary Fortification: Including Rules, Deduced from Experiment, for Determining the Strength of Revetments : Treated on a Principle of Peculiar Perspicuity : Originally Published as Part of a Course of Military Instruction, Charles William Pasley
Autor	Charles William Pasley
Vydání	2
Vydavatel	J. Murray, 1822
Zdroj originálu:	Newyorská veřejná knihovna
Digitalizováno	6. květen 2009

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