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Adams, 67, 68
Adige, 6, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 31
Adriatic, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21
Alessandria, 12, 13, 14, 15, 30
Alma, 28, 42
alphabet of strategy, 36
Alps, 13, 19
American fortification, 10
American public, 82
American system of fortification, 72
American troops, 32
anchorage, 17, 44, 45, 67
Anticari, 17
Archduke Charles of Austria, 35
armament, 39, 45, 68, 70, 72, 80, 83
armor, 45, 48
Armstrong gun, 45
Arsa, 18
artificial defences, 24
artillery, 8, 12, 17, 23, 27, 28, 29, 31, 42,
44, 47, 68, 69, 73, 75, 76
Atlantic coast, 41
Austria, 6, 11, 13, 17, 18, 19, 24, 35
Austrian Army, 30
Austrians, 12, 13, 14, 16, 18, 19, 20, 30, 31

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baggage, 22, 29, 31, 82
Bahamas, 51
Balaklava, 28, 83
Baltic, 11, 22, 23
Barnard, Major J. G., 74, 77, 78, 79, 84
Barren, Pelican, or Coney islands, 33
base, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26,
29, 31, 32, 34, 35, 36, 37, 40, 55, 67, 73
base of operations, 11, 14, 17, 18, 26, 29, 34, 35, 36, 37
bases, 14, 16, 23, 30, 31
bases of operation, 23, 30
Bassano, 14, 18
bastion system, 67
battering-ram steamboats, 60
Bavaria, 14
bayonet, 70
Berry island, 51
Black sea, 11, 81
blockade, 15, 19, 27, 32
Bobriusk, 24
Bobruisk, 24
Bomarsund, 68, 69, 81
bombard, 7, 27, 32
bombardment, 19, 33, 36, 67, 68, 78, 82, 84
Bonaparte, 12
boom of heavy logs, chained end to end, 63
Booms, 63
Borisow, 24
Bosquet, 42
Boston, 51
Boulogne roads, 59
Brenta, 14, 18
Brest, 16, 61, 70
brig, 52
Britain, 7, 48
Brooklyn, 6, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36,
37, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 46, 47, 67, 72, 74, 75, 76,
78, 84, 86
Bulow, 13, 25, 38
Bunker Hill, 70
Busk, 79, 80, 81

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California, 50
Calvados, 80
campaign of Eylau, 24
campaigns of Moscow, and of Eylau and Friedland, 22
cannon, 11, 21, 45, 47, 51, 53, 60, 61, 69, 72, 75, 83
cannonading, 46
caponniere, 73
casemates, 67, 68, 71
casks as floats, 55
Cattaro, 16
Chamber's History of the Russian War, 54
channel batteries, 4, 8
channel fortifications, 49, 72
charge is exploded under water, 53
Charles Albert, 29, 31
Cherbourg, 16, 70, 82
Chersonese, 28
Chippewa, 70
coast survey charts, 35
Coney island, 25, 39, 40, 43, 44, 46, 73, 75, 78, 86
conflagrations, devestations, and plunderings, 81
Congress, 3, 7, 8, 10, 37, 47
Connecticut, 74
coup-de-main, 73
Courier and Enquirer, 57
Crimea, 11, 42, 46
Crimean, 28, 29
Cronstadt, 55, 70, 72
Custozza, 30, 31
Cybela, 51
Cypress Hill cemetery, 25

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Dahlgren, 57, 73
Dangers and Defences, 5, 8, 25, 44, 46, 74, 82
Dantzic, 22
Deal, 52
debarkation, 8, 19, 23, 43, 44, 46, 47, 49, 73, 75, 78, 86
Delaware breakwater, 78
Desfosses, 17
detached works, 68, 82, 83, 84
Devastation, 17
ditch, 68, 73, 84
dogma, 38
Dorothea, 52
Douglas, 68
Dover, 54
Drissa, 24
Dunabourg, 24

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earth batteries, 4, 8, 16, 72, 82, 86
earthwork batteries, 3, 74
earthwork battery, 73
earthwork shore batteries, 49, 63
east channel, 44
East New York, 25
East river, 36, 39, 74, 75, 78
Elizabethport, 74
Emperor Napoleon, 15
Engineer Report, 10, 43
Engineer Bureau, 6, 9, 25, 26, 28, 30, 39, 41, 43, 46, 47,
67, 77, 79
Engineer Department, 46
England, 5, 7, 16, 21, 22, 45, 58, 71, 80, 81
entrances of harbors, 7
Eupatoria, 28
Europe, 38, 66, 69, 70
European, 38, 70
expedition, 18, 19, 20, 26, 27, 34, 44, 45, 69, 71, 75, 78
expeditionary army, 30, 40
expeditionary fleet, 46
expeditionary forces, 11, 36
Eylau, 22, 24

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federal army, 49, 50
field of battle, 30, 69
Finland, 22, 23
firing kegs, 64
firing stations of the torpedoes system, 8
First Lord of the Admiralty, 80
Fiume, 16
floating batteries, 7, 16, 17, 19, 45, 46, 60, 65, 68, 72, 79, 80
flotilla, 23, 42, 43, 44, 68
Flushing bay, 40, 74, 75
forced labor, 76
Forey, 84
fort at Willet's Point, 6, 32, 33, 41, 79
Fort Cenis, 13
Fort Hamilton, 68, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 86
Fort Independence, 68
Fort Lafayette, 73, 74, 77
Fort Point, 67, 68
Fort Richmond, 67, 68, 72, 77, 86
Fort Schuyler, 68
Fort Sumter, 68
Fort Tompkins, 10, 67, 72, 77
fortifications of Europe, 38
fortress, 11, 14, 15, 28, 29, 30, 33, 55, 72, 80
fortresses, 13, 14, 15, 17, 19, 20, 24
fortresses in Russia, 24
fortresses of Coni, Tortona, and Alessandria, 14
France, 5, 6, 11, 13, 14, 21, 22, 24, 45, 62, 71, 81, 82
Francis Joseph, 30
French navy, 60, 79
French troops, 13, 18, 82
Friedland, 22, 24
frigates, 7, 16, 42, 45, 46, 65, 72, 79, 80, 81
frigates blindees, 79
Fulton, 4, 7, 48, 49, 50, 51, 54, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62

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Galicia, 22
garrison, 20, 66, 68, 69, 70, 76, 83
garrisons, 8, 13, 15, 19, 29, 50, 69, 70, 75, 80, 83, 84
Geneva, 13
Genoa, 12, 13, 14, 16
geometrical figures, 35, 36
geometrical investigation, 37
Gibraltar, 69, 70, 80
Gomez & Mills, 55, 57
Gravesend, 25, 39, 43, 44, 73, 75, 86
Gravesend bay, 44, 73
Graviere, 16
Greenwood cemetry, 25
Grivel, 68
guard of the trenches, 83
Gulfs of Livonia and Finland, 22
gunboats, 15, 16, 17, 19, 34, 41, 42, 43, 44, 46, 47, 65, 68, 72
gun-lock, 54, 58, 60, 64
Gunpowder, 48

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harbor defence, 7, 60
Hardy, 58
Harlem river, 74, 86
Havana, 70
heavy artillery, 29, 42, 75
Hell-Gate, 74
"History of the Late War," by Brackenridge, 58
Hohenlinden, 28
House of Lords, 17, 21
howitzers, 33, 67, 69
Hungary, 19, 20
hussar troops, 29

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impedimenta, 23, 29
infantry, 29, 42
infernal machines, 50
Inkermann, 84
interior lines of operations, 13
intrenchments, 4, 40, 41, 42, 46, 47, 66, 69, 75, 82
invasion, 5, 11, 21, 22, 23, 24, 34
invested, 15, 17, 18, 84
investment, 15, 69
investment of Verona, 15
iron shutters, 68
Italian and Romish States, 19
Italian war, 5, 11, 12, 13, 81

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Jamaica bay, 25, 28, 33, 34, 39, 40, 41, 43, 46, 75, 86
Jomini, 13, 23, 33, 38

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Key West, 67
Kiew, 24
Kill Van Kuhl, 74
Kinburn, 17, 45, 79, 80, 81
Konigsberg, 22

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Lake Garda, 14, 15
Lave, 17, 80
Lawrence Point, 74
Leghorn, 16, 18, 19
Legnago, 13, 14, 15, 29
Leoben, 18, 19, 20
Lido, 16, 17, 19
line of operations, 36
line-of-battle-ship, 79
lines of intrenchments, 4
lines of works, 6
Livingston, 48
Lombard provinces, 20
Lombardy, 19
London, 52
Long Island, 6, 25, 26, 30, 31, 33, 34, 35,
36, 37, 39, 40, 41, 72, 74, 75, 78, 86
Lossino, 17
Louis Napoleon, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20
Lyndhurst, 21
Lyons, 81

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magazine, 37
magazines, 8, 22, 23, 29, 30, 67, 83
Magenta, 6
Maillefert, 51, 55, 56, 57
main body, 15, 18, 19, 20, 27, 32, 33, 42
manœuvre, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 36
manœuvres, 6, 15, 20, 26, 27, 30, 32, 54
Manhattan island, 74
Mantua, 13, 14, 15, 19, 29, 30, 31
Marengo, 12, 13
maritime base, 24, 34
masonry casemated castles, 67
masonry fortifications, 3, 63, 69, 79
masonry forts, 8, 50, 60, 82
masonry system, 10, 77, 82
masonry works, 49, 50, 72
Mediterranean, 13
Melas, 12
Melville, 52
Memoir on the Defence of New York, 37, 44, 67
men-of-war, 5, 65
Menschikoff, 28
Method of Teaching Engineering and Fortification
at the United States Military Academy, 37
method of attaching and exploding torpedoes, 59
method of invasion, 11
Mexican war, 71
Mexico, 70
military chest, 29, 31
militia, 3, 4, 6, 26, 27, 28, 40, 47, 49, 50, 66, 69,
70, 71, 74, 76, 78, 79, 83, 86
Mincio, 12, 17, 19, 21, 29, 31
Modena, 19
modern war, 11
modern warfare, 5
Moncey, 12
Montauk Point, 34
Moreau, 14
mortars, 33, 69
Moscow, 22, 23, 77

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Napoleon I, 6, 7, 13, 14, 19, 20, 22, 23, 33
Narrows, 43, 44, 45, 72, 73, 74, 75, 77, 78
Nautilus, 62
navy-yard, 26, 39, 41, 43, 57
New Orleans, 70
New Plan for the Fortification of certain Points of the Sea-coast, 45, 67, 79
New York, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 25, 26, 32, 33, 36, 37, 39, 40, 43, 52, 57,
63, 67, 69, 70, 72, 74, 76, 77, 78, 82, 84, 85, 86
Niel, 82, 83, 84
Niemen, 22, 23, 24
Norfolk, 58

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Ocean Hill, 25
official plan, 27, 34
official system of defence, 25
Ordnance Bureau, 57

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Pakington, 80
Parliment, 17
Pensacola, 67
permanent works, 69
Peschiera, 13, 14, 15, 17, 19, 29, 31
Piedmont, 12, 13, 14
Piedmontese, 19, 29, 31
Pitt, 7, 48, 52
Plaisance, 12
plan for torpedo defense of a channel, 64
Plantagenet, 58
Po, 12
point d'appui, 23, 24
point of attack, 69, 72, 75
Poland, 22
Polish frontier, 23
Present System of Fortification, 9
Prince Napoleon, 18, 19
Prussia, 6, 24

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quadrangle, 13, 15, 17, 18, 29, 30
quarantine anchorage, 45
Quebec, 70

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Radetzky, 29, 30, 31
Randall's Island, 74, 86
rear-guard, 32, 33
redoubt, 64, 73, 76, 86
redoubts, 40, 42, 66, 75, 76
reembark, 6, 28, 37, 39
reembarkation, 30, 33, 34, 39, 43
reembarkations, 34, 39, 40
reserve, 17, 29, 31, 65, 75, 76, 83
reserve artillery, 29, 31
retreat, 6, 11, 12, 14, 19, 23, 26, 28, 30,
31, 32, 34, 37, 42, 79
Revel, 22, 23, 24
rhinoceros principle, 60
ricochet fire, 68
rifle-cannon, 72
Riga, 22, 23, 24
Robbin's reef, 77
Robinson, 52
Rockaway, 25, 26, 27, 33, 36, 39, 41
Roveredo, 18
rules of strategy, 37
Russia, 6, 22, 23, 24
Russian army, 83, 84
Russian war, 12, 50

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Sand's Point, 34
Sandy Hook, 10, 44, 45, 46, 47, 67, 72, 78, 86
Saragossa, 77
Sardinian, 13, 17
scarp, 67, 83, 84
scarps, 68, 75, 84
Schio, 18
Scott, 25, 46, 70
screw ships-of-the-line, 80
screw steamboat, 62
Seguine's Point, 45
Sevastopol, 28, 29, 55, 69, 70, 72, 82, 83, 84
Ship Island, 67
shore batteries, 7, 49, 63, 64, 65, 82
siege, 16, 21, 45, 67, 69, 74, 82, 83
Smolensk, 23, 24
Solferino, 12, 13, 15, 17, 29
St. Bernard, 12, 13
St. Gothard, 12
St. Petersburg, 22, 23, 54
Staten Island, 72, 74, 77
steam fleet, 34, 80
steam line-of-battle ship, 45
steam power, 5
steel-plated frigates, 7, 72, 79
Storms, 34
strategical difficulties, 29
strategical operations, 12, 13, 35
strategical plans of a campaign, 12
strategy, 5, 12, 25, 35, 36, 37
Styria, 18, 20
submarine bombs, 50
submarine explosions, 48, 49, 50, 51
submarine use of powder, 48
submarine warfare, 7
Sunken Meadow, 74, 86
Switzerland, 12, 13
system of intrenched earthwork lines, 72
system of masonry casemated forts or castles, 10
system of torpedoes and earth intrenchments, 66

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Tagliamento, 14, 19
theory of defence as stated by the bureau, 32
three deckers, 80
Throgg's Point, 26, 36, 39, 41, 74, 86
Ticino, 12, 13
Tonnante, 17, 80
torpedo, 4, 8, 50, 52, 54, 55, 56, 58, 59, 60, 61,
62, 63, 64, 72, 74
torpedo warfare, 4, 50, 59, 60, 61, 63, 64
torpedoes, 7, 8, 52, 54, 55, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62,
63, 64, 65, 66, 74
Toulon, 16, 17, 18, 70, 79
trenches, 83, 84
Trent, 14
Tuel's "War in Italy, 19
Tyrol, 14, 18, 19, 20

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Ulm, 30
United States, 9, 10, 37, 45, 67

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valor and marksmanship of our militia, 76
Vauban, 38, 67, 83
Venetian States, 18
Venetians, 20
Venice, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 69
Venitia, 19
Vera Cruz, 46
Verona, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 29, 31
Victor Emanuel, 19
Vienna, 18, 19, 20
Villach, 18, 20
Villafranca, 21
Vincenza, 18
Vistula, 22
volunteer, 8, 49, 66, 70, 76, 83

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Walmer road, 52
War Department, 3, 6, 35, 39, 40, 42, 47, 77, 86
Warmser, 14
Warsaw, 22
Washington, D. C, 3
Wilia, 22
Wilkin's Point, 26
Willaumez, 16, 19
Willet's Neck, 27, 28, 30, 32, 33, 40
Willet's Point, 6, 10, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31,
32, 33, 35, 36, 39, 40, 41, 76, 78, 79, 86
Wilna, 22, 23

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