Manual of military engineering . ated iron and shingle blockhouses surrounded by barbedwire ; on the north-west frontier of India stone sangars arethe rule ; in the Lushai Expedition of 1889 bamboo stockadeswere made ; in the Soudan breastworks of sand and thornzerebas. Where railway stations have to be protected,blockhouses, stockades and splinter proofs made of rails andloopholed buildings will predominate, while for a bridge thepiers and girders can often, with a little ingenuity, be madeinto good cover for a small post. In savage warfare the best hints as to designs may generallybe got fro
Manual of military engineering . ated iron and shingle blockhouses surrounded by barbedwire ; on the north-west frontier of India stone sangars arethe rule ; in the Lushai Expedition of 1889 bamboo stockadeswere made ; in the Soudan breastworks of sand and thornzerebas. Where railway stations have to be protected,blockhouses, stockades and splinter proofs made of rails andloopholed buildings will predominate, while for a bridge thepiers and girders can often, with a little ingenuity, be madeinto good cover for a small post. In savage warfare the best hints as to designs may generallybe got from the enemy, who, in the course of intertribal warfare,will most likely have evolved the types of defence best suitedfor local materials, and to resist the same form of attack andweapons which he will employ against us. Such types, whenimproved by the light of our own knowledge, modified to £iiZ££z Defence of a Post on a line of Communications . {Springfontein —South African iVar/899-OZ.) 1 nil FORU® i^^UCvmphmaitfafftflea. TUjcLc 33 Defensible PostUcHA Jawa 1897.
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