T A B L E.

Acute angles should be avoided — 6
Size of the flanks is in the judgment of whoever has charge of the work — 7
General opinion of those who fortify — 8
Thickness of the parapet of the bastions — 8
Thickness of the parapet of the curtains — 9
Upright timbers should be erected when the foundation of the wall is to be built inside it — 31
Upright timbers should not meet each other — 32
Timbers want to be of hard & strong wood — 32
Timbers want to be well cleaned of their trunks — 32
The timbers, after they are brought, must be secured so they do not fall — 33
Barrows for carrying the earth — 37
It greatly matters to make the people walk with order — 40
Lattices in place of planks for making the bridges — 41
Upright timbers should not be touched by the chains — 53
Lattices in the corners of the cannon-embrasures — 54
Lattices for the bridges — 55
Lattices for making gabions — 55
Gabions in place of a parapet — 61
Lattice for the sally port — 65
Pulley and rope — 83
Errors should be avoided — 90
Generally, foundations should be made stronger in the members than in the curtains — 90

Having a good number of heavy artillery, the place can be made capacious & ample — 5
Having the convenience of time, one should not leave out any good order, however small it may be — 24
Having the convenience of time, one should use lotte earth-clods/turf blocks — 25
Men of the mountains are good sappers — 37
Men who level the earth as it is brought — 39
Having haste, how to put the brushwood filling into operation — 52

The Roman soldiers knew the order of fortifying — 1
The soldier must exercise himself well in knowing the forms — 3