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FORTIFICATION

CIVITAS FARVA ET PAUCI IN EA VIRI: VENIT CONTRA EAM REX MAGNUS ET VALLAVIT EAM, EXTRUXITQUE MUNITIONES PER GYRUM, ET PERFECTA EST OBSIDIO.

“INVENTUSQUE EST IN EA PAUPER ET SAPIENS, ET LIBERAVIT CRBEM PER SAPIENTIAM SUAM, ET NULLUS DEINCEPS RECORDATUS EST HOMINIS ILLIUS PAUPERIS.

"ET DICEBAM EGO MELIOREM ESSE SAPIENTIAM FORTITUDINE."-Eccles. (Vulg. Ed.) ix. 14.

"Doch seinen Muth muß Weisheit leiten,
Und List muß mit der Stärke streiten.”

-SCHILLER, (Kampf mit dem Drachen.)

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FOR

OFFICERS OF THE ARMY AND STUDENTS OF
MILITARY HISTORY

WITH

ILLUSTRATIONS AND NOTES

BY

LIEUT. HENRY YULE

BENGAL ENGINEERS

"For all that, Sir Duncan, I would premonish you, as a friend, to trace out a sconce
on that round hill, with a good graffe or ditch-it being the custom of the valorous
Gustavus Adolphus to fight as much by the spade and shovel, as by sword, pike, and
musket. Also I would advise you to fortify the said sconce, not only by foussie or graffe,
but also by certain stackets or palisades."-LEGEND OF MONTROSE.

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS
EDINBURGH AND LONDON

MDCCCLI

331. 0.3%.

PRINTED BY WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS, EDINBURGH

INSCRIBED

TO

MAJOR WILLIAM ERSKINE BAKER

BENGAL ENGINEERS

BY

HIS ATTACHED FRIEND

H. YULE

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