Notes on Seacoast Fortification Construction (Classic Reprint)

Book excerpt: Excerpt from Notes on Seacoast Fortification Construction In the fall of 1906 the author of these notes was relieved from duty in charge of the Norfolk engineering district, and was sent to the Engineer School at Washington Barracks as director of military engineering. The Norfolk district, from which he came, had, during his tenure of the district, been an exceedingly active one as far as fortification construction was concerned, and had been the principal site of the joint Army and Navy maneuvers in 1905. Furthermore, during the years 1903 to 1906 a large amount of experimental Coast Artillery work had been in progress at Fort Monroe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.