On the Attack and Defense of Fortresses

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the costs, if one had absolutely wanted to give them all a precise proportion to one another: which is all the less necessary, as there are barely more than three or four Figures that have a relationship to each other, all the others being able to be considered as isolated, and each forming a separate group.

WE have reason to flatter ourselves that the Public will be no less pleased with the Treatise on War in General that we offer, both to give it pleasure, and to give this Volume a little more Substance, and to proportion it to the first. Although it is not by Mr. de Vauban, it is nonetheless by a very capable hand, and those in the Profession will easily judge, by browsing through a few Articles, that the Author was no longer in his apprenticeship. In a word, it is an Officer as distinguished by his services as by his rank in the Armies of France who is the Author. Regarding the arrangement of the subjects, it is quite conformable to the order that the Marquis de Quincy observed in his Art of War. Our Author, after some general Notions, also speaks of all the military Employments, from the Chief of the Army down to the simple Soldier, and subsequently enters into the detail of several of the most important Operations of War: but for those who know the Work of Mr. de Quincy ever so little, one will recognize without