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Embrasures, how to design them. ch. 48
Embrasures with teeth. ch. 48
Embrasure that fires in battery. ch. 75
Embrasure, how to make them. ch. 80
Secure embrasures made of timber. ch. 81
Embrasures, how to cut them into parapets. ch. 85
Embrasures in the flank not splayed original: "non imboccate", referring to a specific wide-mouthed flared design. ch. 88
Low, secure embrasures. ch. 90
Embrasures in the barbette style a platform allowing a gun to fire over a parapet. ch. 94
Timber embrasures above the wall. ch. 260
Embrasure in the barbette style above the orillon. ch. 76
Embrasures covered with timber. ch. 289
Covered embrasures. ch. 180
Causes of the ruins of earthen ramparts. ch. 25
Reasons why parapets are made. ch. 79
Reasons for diverse opinions. ch. 61
Cavaliers elevated platforms for artillery, and their defense. ch. 37
Cavaliers, and the oppositions made against them. ch. 258
Cavaliers, and the benefit they provide. ch. 259
Useful cavaliers. ch. 90
Cavaliers with duplicate defense. ch. 94
Cavaliers defend all the squares. ch. 177
Excavations to be made to understand the sites. ch. 62
Reason why the science of fortification is understood by few. ch. 111
Reasons for which parapets are made. ch. 79
Excavation of the ditch. ch. 118
Very useful wheelbarrows. ch. 124
Castle of Brescia. ch. 182
Castle of Brescia. ch. 291
Case made with driven piles. ch. 189
Cart useful for carrying earth. ch. 219
Circle necessary to form the plans. ch. 7
Circles, and their divisions. ch. 15
Five ways of offense are done with the Mattock. ch. 64
Five ways to build the merlons. ch. 86
Five oppositions made to the flank with a single square. ch. 90
Whoever is not a flatterer is poor in wealth and rich in enemies. ch. 255
Long colubrines a type of long-barreled cannon rich in metal. ch. 69
To fight and to work are difficult tasks. ch. 278
How walls must be made. ch. 25
Composition of the Fortress. ch. 35
Convenience for discovering all the bastions. ch. 52
Convenience for loading and unloading stones. ch. 191
How the defenses of mountain Fortresses must be made. ch. 182
Amenities that bombardiers must have. ch. 22
How Fortresses are drawn in plan. ch. 22
How the enemy may plant artillery. ch. 67
How to find the diameter and the windage the clearance between projectile and bore of artillery balls, page 294
How one may sortie into the ditch. ch. 265
How palisades are made. ch. 276
How to give the windage to the balls. ch. 281
How one must cover the bombardier. ch. 288
How to level. ch. 195
How one combines force with speed. ch. 240
Comparison between the defenders and the offenders. ch. 75
Consultations to finish the structures. ch. 65
Counterscarp, and its convenience. ch. 83
Counterscarp when it is discovered. ch. 95
Counter-ditch. ch. 100
Wedge-shaped buttresses. ch. 128
Calculation to make for the number of defenders. ch. 149
Artificed counterscarp and its effect. ch. 179
Continuous motion of waters and its effect. ch. 188
Counterscarp as discovered from the flank. ch. 19
According to the site, the defense must be made. ch. 24
Guardhouses with their amenities. ch. 131
Cosimo, Grand Duke of Tuscany. ch. 33
Cunette a small trench or drain in the bottom of a ditch, how to pass it to sortie. ch. 257
Cunette in the ditch. ch. 101
Cunette and its defense. ch. 19
Defenses and their measurements. ch. 7
Defenses of the bastion, where they are taken. ch. 9
Defense of the counterscarp. ch. 9
Defense for the various angles. ch. 13
Defense of the fifth angle. ch. 15
Defense of the flanks. ch. 18
Defenses that the artillery must make. ch. 19
Defense against batteries. ch. 35
Defense for covering the flank with the gorge of the bastion. ch. 37
Defense of the cunette with the teeth. ch. 40
Defense of the cavaliers. ch. 52
Defense of the Fortress compared to the game of chess. ch. 65
Defense of the Fortress, how long. ch. 67
Defense, how harmful to the Fortress. ch. 67
Defense for the sappers. ch. 71
Defense of the face of the bastion. ch. 75
Defense and its example. ch. 89
Defense of the cunette. ch. 101
Defense against petards explosive devices used to breach doors or walls. ch. 132
Defense of the ravelin. ch. 177
Defense carved into the cut of the mountain. ch. 182
Main defense and unknown. ch. 260
Useful defense to make in the Fortress. ch. 261
Defense of the retreats. ch. 272
Defense of the batteries. ch. 279
Defense of the gabions cylindrical baskets filled with earth. ch. 288
Ancient defenses, how secured. ch. 257
High defenses to cover the squares. ch. 78
Ancient defenses, how they are modernized. ch. 107
Short defenses and their imperfections. ch. 67
Superior defenses are easily restored. ch. 261
Stable defenses. ch. 178
Defenses of the batteries made from the flank. ch. 267
Defenses of the batteries made with stone-throwers. ch. 267
Royal defenses. ch. 270
Flanked defenses made with palisades. ch. 276
Straightness of the gorge of the flank. ch. 24
Straightness of the gorge of the flank. ch. 74
Design necessary in all professions. ch. 32
Disorders of the structures, what they depend on. ch. 65
Difficulty in splaying the flanks. ch. 69
Difficulty the enemy has in planting artillery. ch. 81
Dispensing the materials to their place. ch. 117
Defects that happen to the guards of the gates. ch. 135
Disorder brought by artillery pieces with little difference in ball size. ch. 137
Disorders that happen in the foundries. ch. 137
Difficulty of founding under water. ch. 191
Difference between the Mathematician and the Mechanic. ch. 196
Diverse ways to raise water. ch. 226
Where the measurements of the Fortress must be taken. ch. 19
Two things are required to know how to fortify. ch. 111
Two opinions for securing Fortresses. ch. 175
What caliber of ball the artillery must be. ch. 137
Diligence of the enemy in approaching. ch. 83
Slope made with stones. ch. 184
About battering the lodgments. ch. 109
From what the ruins of walls happen. ch. 121
Depot for keeping the powder. ch. 148
Diligences to perform in the Fortress that awaits the siege. ch. 256
Disorders that happen in operating the artillery. ch. 259
Defenders must show valor and ingenuity in three things. ch. 267
On the little practice of the bombardier. ch. 288
Excellence of the Military Engineer. ch. 274
Buildings for pounding the powder. ch. 148
Effect of the width of the ditch. ch. 78
Good effect of the flank, where three pieces of artillery can stand. ch. 78
Effect that drawing makes. ch. 32
Effects that depend on practice. ch. 116
Election of the Engineer. ch. 112
Error usually made by bombardiers. ch. 282
Example that is between force and speed. ch. 238
Example of the defense. ch. 89
Armies that have wings. ch. 141
Fabrication of the level of the bombardiers. ch. 283
Ease of turning the mouth of the piece. ch. 288
Beacon to show the way to sailors at night. ch. 186
Manufacture of the cases for founding under water. ch. 190
Embrasures made in three ways. ch. 84
Flank, what part of the ditch it must discover. ch. 90
Flank and its considerations. ch. 74
Flanks battered by the traverse. ch. 179
Flank and its office. ch. 44
Small flank. ch. 46