FORTIFICATION, 
wo long fides may have each a bares e, lager or without 
Tunettes, tenaillons, counter-guards, bonnets, fleches, &c. 
whole may bear fufficient hae of ee to allow 
its coming under. that defignation ; the ru ules neceffary for 
the due combination of a regular and perfect fy ) 
fence, as founded on approved fy ftems ; ak in every in- 
aaa obferv ed. 
‘eS 
a 
du@tion of the works, which see then be defended by about 
one-third the num ad of men required in the other ace 
Fro : 
eles the principal etch lll eee of alternate cur- 
tains and battio Every outwork muft defend, or prevent 
the approach : “fome at point ; or it muft occupy 
ight alfo give advantage a the enemy. 
tuation er pee it be fo con- 
as a f 
ang ae, aii to be expofed ¢ 
eee ae more remote batterie 
Pp eacea ons, we eer and the ftores, but 
Hale e lodged in fecurely vaulted 
vaulted 1 
of the troops, and 
magazines for powder are built in various parts, fo as to 
‘be = near tc the feveral works they are to {fupply. 
For the aah sri of magazines, we refer to ae ar a. 
bi jake erie 
under, than over, twenty de 
In every fortified place coe attention fheuld be paid m 
te 
e allotted 
to the garfon or to fuch emai &e. as aa be able, 
in cafe o man 
s; orif they (hon Id defcend i into 
eee bya (aan ‘force col- 
om the hove "ouenlichine the body of the 
he eer might le 
le d fro 
orks. 
To favour thé forties made by the garrifon for the pur- 
pofe of ftorming the trenches of the befiegers, and of de- 
molifhing their batteries, magazines, &c. fa y 
made in various parts, generally concealed from the know- 
2 Bee of all but a wale and carefully clofed until fuch time 
asa fortie is about to take place. des sae are made 
— the feveral ae with the view to ate - 
y from carrying their galleries on them ; and m 
as awl as {maller fougaffes, are funk with the ea ah “of 
blowing up fuch outworks as, when poffeffed by the enemy, 
ia ie ase to the defendants. 
ortified place, a fufficient ve - good 
ae is "Sncifpenfable. If conduits agit fro om a river, 
lake, &c. they mutt be fecured ae the 
ortrefs where {pace 
car. be allowed, and in every outw one or more wells o 
prop iameter, Aga ed Pris or line ith 
Hittory a various moft encour aging inftances of 
the good * feds refulang 4 fon the fortitude of aed 
weak >» and even na iereatly fup 
need look no farther back than to the glorious afere sade 
the Galoeanate city o fla; andto the wonderful 
obftinacy with the brave inhabitants, both male and 
female, of Gerona, — ded again 
an 
difmantled works, filling the breach with oo faggots, 
cotton fteeped in oil, &c. mining, traverfes, fhowers of 
Brendes and of grape-fhot, 7 is ie he the afflailants 
ay have to overcome the moft formidable obftacles, Pe 
