Attack of Fortified Places: Including Siege-works, Mining, and Demolitions. Prepared for the Use of the Cadets of the United States Military Academy |
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allel approaches assault attack batteries berm besieging force breach camouflet camps cap-sill capture cartridge charge chions common mines constructed counter-scarp cover crater radius crowning defence depots depth detached direction distance ditch double sap driven dynamite earth embrasures enfilading excavation feet fire firing apparatus flanks frames and sheeting front full sap fuse fuze gabions gallery of departure garrison give glacis ground ground-sill gun-cotton gunpowder head parapet height high explosives horizontal howitzers inches intervals investing force least resistance length line of least located magazines mealed powder Military Mining miners mortars mortises necessary obtained occupied overcharged mines parallel party pieces Plevna possible powder radius of rupture rear relief rule sand-bags sappers scantling scarp screens second artillery position shovel side parapets side sheeting siege slope soil sorties splinter-proofs stanchions tamping tenons thickness throwing tion traverses trench troops usually vertical width yards