AND MATHEW CAREY & SON, PHILADELPHIA,

HAVE BEEN APPOINTED AGENTS TO THE FOLLOWING WORK.

A

TREATISE

ON THE SCIENCE OF

WAR AND FORTIFICATION.

COMPOSED FOR THE USE OF THE

STUDENTS OF THE IMPERIAL POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL,

AND OF THE

MILITARY SCHOOLS;

AND TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH, FOR THE

WAR DEPARTMENT,

FOR THE USE OF THE

MILITARY ACADEMY OF THE UNITED STATES:

TO WHICH IS ADDED

AN APPENDIX,

OR

SUMMARY OF THE PRINCIPLES AND MAXIMS

OF

GRAND TACTICS AND OPERATIONS.

BY JOHN M. O'CONNOR,

CAPTAIN OF ARTILLERY, AND LATE MAJOR AND ASSISTANT ADJUTANT-
GENERAL IN THE NORTHERN ARMY.

"Without the rivalship of nations, and the practice of war, civil society itself could
scarcely have found an object or a form."

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FERGUSON ON CIVIL SOCIETY.

VOLUME THE FIRST,

PART I.-THE SCIENCE OF WAR IN GENERAL.

PART 11.-FIELD AND TEMPORARY FORTIFICATION.

VOLUME THE SECOND,

PART III.-PERMANENT FORTIFICATION, OR THE FORTIFICATION

OF FORTRESSES.

This work embraces the whole science of war and fortification, and is used as the text-book of the French Polytechnic and military schools. It was composed in 1805 by Colonel De Vernon, of the engineers, and Professor of fortification at the Polytechnic school, by order of the council for the improvement of that school; and after being revised and approved by a board of the Marshals and ablest engineers, was, by order of the Emperor Napoleon, adopted as the text and class-book of the Polytechnic and military schools. It has been translated for the war DEPARTMENT, for the USE OF THE MILITARY ACADEMY OF THE UNITED STATES. The surplus of copies not subscribed for by the War Department, are now offered to the army, navy, militia, and public.

ALSO, JUST PUBLISHED,

THE RESOURCES

OF THE

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA;

OR,

A View of the Agricultural, Commercial, Manufacturing, Financial, Political, Literary, Moral and Religious Capacity and Character of the American People.

BY JOHN BRISTED,

COUNSELLOR AT LAW.

AUTHOR OF THE RESOURCES OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE.

Multa renascentur, quæ join cecidere, caulentque, quæ nunc sunt in honore.

New-York:

PRINTED BY ABRAHAM PAUL,

AND TO BE HAD OF THE PROPRIETORS, AND OF THE PRINCIPAL

BOOKSELLERS IN THE UNITED STATES.

MAY, 1818.