The Monthly military repository . the part of the Britifh. In tksKo^th, hov/ever, matters wore a different afpe6t.(To be continued.) aEMARKS ON THE ANCIENT AND MODSRN METHOD OF J rORTIFYING. I From the ^^ Fortification Pertendiculairr^^ of the Marquis de ^Montalembert.[with a plate.] In every period of the world it has been the practice of all na»tions to contrive faitable means for defending themfeves againfl thetyranny of power. But it feems that men have greater abilitiesfor deftroying than for preferving; as no fufHcient means havebeen hitherto found out, whereby we might confine in proper
The Monthly military repository . the part of the Britifh. In tksKo^th, hov/ever, matters wore a different afpe6t.(To be continued.) aEMARKS ON THE ANCIENT AND MODSRN METHOD OF J rORTIFYING. I From the ^^ Fortification Pertendiculairr^^ of the Marquis de ^Montalembert.[with a plate.] In every period of the world it has been the practice of all na»tions to contrive faitable means for defending themfeves againfl thetyranny of power. But it feems that men have greater abilitiesfor deftroying than for preferving; as no fufHcient means havebeen hitherto found out, whereby we might confine in properlimits the fpirit of conqueft which animates the ambitious princes,of the earth, whofe exigence is too often a misfortune to mankind. By well eredled forts we might probably befl attain this obje6land impede the progrefs of an enemy; but in the prefent day theyare a weak obflacle, and feem to exifl only to heighten thecnemy^s triumph. If the ilTue of a battle has been once fortunate t:Jc^t/c rj^ ^(^ ^^ V^<^<^t/ So I I I I. ! i I- \ / \ 1i 1 i ??! X. MILITARY REPOSITORY. 1S7 Cor the one or the other party; the conqueror purfues his advan-tages with avidity, and ftrong towns far rounded v ith walls andditches, leave to him hardly fo much time as he wants, to doubt ofIts fubmiiiion. They cannot fend deputies foon enough to folicitthe favour of their new mafter. Towns u ith bulwarks and half-moons, befides aii other outworks, hardly wait till the Saps of th«befiegers have reached the Glacis^ and their batteries are ere<£ledupon the Crete oi it, to open, their gates to the conqueror. A liegeof two or three weeks is in our day a very long and obftinate capital forts, which are furrounded by a double and triple lineof works, the fortifying and keeping of which have coil: enor-mous fums, and to the garrifoning of which a fmall army isrequifite—fuch forts only may hold out a regular fiege: and, ifthey are well defended; the fiege lafts about fix weeks or twomonths
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