Modern Military Architecture

name. He had the kindness to give me that hand, so often victorious, and to say to me: That this would be his field book; and that he would return it to me enriched with his experiences, and amended with all the corrections and considerations that he would have judged necessary to render it more perfect and more accomplished. And the next day he was on horseback for the last of his campaigns, on the return from which, by the loss we suffered of him, his death would have left us inconsolable regrets; if, departing from us, he had not remained among us, and had not succeeded himself in the person of Your Highness, who, preserving him for us entirely and most perfectly, leaves us no faculty to lament or desire him.

You know, MY LORD, (and this knowledge born with you, and as if nourished in the same cradle, has been the first entertainment of your childhood;) That our Military Architecture is comprised entirely in two main parts: Hercotectonics original: "L’Hercotectonique" is that which contains the method of well-provisioning places and fortifying them. The other bears the name of Areotectonics original: "Aréotectonique", and teaches how to take and defend them. The first owes its perfection to the care and incomparable sufficiency of the excellent MAURICE, paternal uncle of Your Highness; for it is he alone who, of all the United Provinces, made a single invincible Fortress: by fortifying each of their cities, according to their situations, with a marvelous and new industry, a singular prudence, and an extreme depth of judgment.