The military engineer : or, a treatise on the attack and defence of all kinds of fortified places. In which are explained the construction of the necessary works, with the method of designing them on paper, and transferring the plan to the ground; the attacks of large towns, with their different outworks most in use; and also of smaller places, forts and other posts, which occur in the course of a war; the manner of escalades and surprizes; and all other matters relating either to the works or operations, necessary to convey a full knowledge of the art of engineering. Composed by M. Le Blond, Professor Of Mathematics, For the use of the French Noblesse. To which is added, a succinct account of three remarkable sieges at different periods, by which the progress of the Art is pointed out. In two parts. Illustrated with twenty copper-plates.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Le Blond, Guillaume, 1704-1781.

Standardized Title:

Elémens de la guerre des sièges. Vols.2-3. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Military art and science--Early works to 1800.

Military art and science.

's-Hertogenbosch (Netherlands)--Siege, 1629.

's-Hertogenbosch (Netherlands).

Namur (Belgium)--Siege, 1695.

Namur (Belgium).

Bergen op Zoom (Netherlands)--Siege, 1747.

Bergen op Zoom (Netherlands).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (2v.,20 plates )

Other Title:

Military engineer

Place of Publication:

London : printed for J. Nourse at the Lamb opposite Katherine-Street in the Strand, MDCCLIX. [1759]

Notes:

A translation of vols.2-3 of his 'Elémens de la guerre des sièges'.

Reproduction of original from Huntington Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N4489.

OCLC:

642203867