A Treatise on Coast-Defence PDF Download

Author: Viktor Ernst Karl Rudolf von Scheliha
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780282502201
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 382

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Excerpt from A Treatise on Coast-Defence: Based on the Experience Gained by Officers of the Corps of Engineers of the Army of the Confederate States, and Compiled From Official Reports of Officers of the Navy of the United States, Made During the Late North American War From 1861 to 1865 Tm; following treatise presents chiefly the results of the Author's experience and observation in Coast-defence during the four years of the late war in North America. His pur pose has been to develop and establish theory from fact. He has endeavoured throughout to support his assertions by ex tracts from the oflicial reports of officers of the United States' Navy, his late adversaries. Especial attention is called to these extracts, which embody much that is valuable in Coast defence of the present day. The work is mainly intended to set forth the principles of Coast-defence as they had developed themselves at the close of the American war, and for the maturing of which we must look to future investigations and experiments by engineers and naval oflicers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.