- Elements of Military Art and Science
Or, Course Of Instruction In Strategy, Fortification, Tactics Of Battles, &C.; Embracing The Duties Of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, And Engineers; Adapted To The Use Of Volunteers And Militia; Third Edition; With Critical Notes On The Mexican And Crimean Wars.

ELEMENTS

OF

MILITARY ART AND SCIENCE:

OR,

COURSE OF INSTRUCTIONINSTRATEGY, FORTIFICATION, TACTICS OF BATTLES, &c.

EMBRACING THE DUTIES OF STAFF, INFANTRY, CAVALRY, ARTILLERY, ANDENGINEERS.

ADAPTED TO THE USE OF VOLUNTEERS AND MILITIA.

THIRD EDITION.

WITH CRITICAL NOTES ON THE MEXICAN AND CRIMEAN WARS.

BY

H. WAGER HALLECK, A.M., MAJOR GENERAL, U.S.A.

NEW YORK:

D. APPLETON & COMPANY,

443 & 445 BROADWAY.

LONDON: 16 LITTLE BRITAIN

1862.

Entered, according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1846, BY D.APPLETON & COMPANY, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of theUnited States for the Southern District of New York.

I. INTRODUCTION.—Dr. Wayland's Arguments on the Justifiableness of Warbriefly examined.

II. STRATEGY.—General Divisions of the Art.—Rules for planning aCampaign.—Analysis of the Military Operations of Napoleon.

III. FORTIFICATIONS.—Their importance in the Defence of States provedby numerous Historical Examples.

IV. LOGISTICS.—Subsistence.—Forage.—Marches.—Convoys.—Castrametation.

V. TACTICS.—The Twelve Orders of Battle, with Examples ofeach.—Different Formations of Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, andEngineers on the Field of Battle, with the Modes of bringing Troops intoaction./p>

VI. MILITARY POLITY.—The Means of National Defence best suited to thecharacter and condition of a Country, with a brief Account of thoseadopted by the several European Powers.

VII. DEFENCE OF OUR SEA-COAST.—Brief Description of our MaritimeFortifications, with an Examination of the several Contests that havetaken place between Ships and Forts, including the Attack on San Juand'Ulloa, and on St. Jean d'Acre.

VIII. OUR NORTHERN FRONTIER DEFENCES.—Brief Description of theFortifications on the Frontier, and an analysis of our NorthernCampaigns.

IX. ARMY ORGANIZATION.—Staff and Administrative Corps.—Their History,Duties, Numbers, and Organization.

X. ARMY ORGANIZATION.—Infantry and Cavalry.—Their History, Duties,Numbers, and Organization.

XI. ARMY ORGANIZATION.—Artillery.—Its History and Organization, with aBrief Notice of the different kinds of Ordnance, the Manufacture ofProjectiles, &c.

XII. ARMY ORGANIZATION.—Engineers.—Their History, Duties, andOrganization,—with a Brief Discussion, showing their importance as apart of a modern Army Organization.

XIII. PERMANENT FORTIFICATIONS. Historical Notice of the progress ofthis Art.—Description of the several parts of a Fortress, and thevarious Methods of fortifying a Position.

XIV. FIELD ENGINEERING.—Field Fortifications.—MilitaryCommunications.—Military Bridges.—Sapping, Mining, and the Attack andDefence of a Fortified Place.

XV. MILITARY EDUCATION.—Military Schools of France, Prussia, Austria,Russia, England, &c.—Washington's Reasons for establishing the WestPoint Academy.—Rules of Ap

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