Attack of Fortified Places. Including Siege-works, Mining, and Demolitions.: Prepared for the use of the Cadets of the United States Military AcademyMercur, James
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Attack of Fortified Places. Including Siege-works, Mining, and Demolitions.: Prepared for the use of the Cadets of the United States Military Academy
Mercur, James
Defensive (Military science); Military engineering; Offensive (Military science); Siege warfare
Tracing lanterns, pickets, tapes, etc., 14
Tracing parallels, 17
Transverse galleries or transversals, 170
Traverse by blinded sap, 35
Traverse, cube, 34
Traverses, length of, 34
Traversed sap, 33
Trenches, 15
Trench cavalier, 36
Trenches, guard of the, 15
Trench, infantry, 104
Trench, simple, 20
Tunnels, demolition of, 183
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Underground warfare, 169
V
Vauban’s maxims, 94
Ventilation of mines, 158-60
Vertical fire, batteries for, 83
Volume and form of craters, 121
Volume and weight of charge, 161, 181
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Wagner, Fort, siege of, 86
Walls, demolition of, 181
Water-supply, 116
Weight and volume of charge, 161, 181
Wet ditch, passage of, 38-40
Working drawings, 151
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