Excerpt from A Treatise Containing the Elementary Part of Fortification, Regular and Irregular: With Remarks on the Constructions of the Most Celebrated Authors, Particularly of Marshal De Vauban and Baron Coehorn, in Which the Perfection and Imperfection of Their Several Works Are Considered IN C E n the invention of gunpowder, fortification has received various im provements, and many have been the books wrote upon this fubjeet, which might incline one to think, that it was arrived to its utmoft perfection; but upon an impartial furvey of molt of the writers, it will be found, if I miftake not, that many of them are deficient either in theory or practice, and others blind ed by prejudice, fo that there is much room left to exercife the genius and. Excite the in du ry of thofe whofe bufinefs leads them to this Rudy; befides, as the art of attacking te ceived feveral improvements in the late wars, it {hould follow that the art of fortifying re quires likewife improvements in proportion. 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."

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