Mercur James. Mahan’s Permanent Fortifications

Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. — New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1894. — 259 p.; ill.In revising this work for the use of the cadets at the Military Academy, it has been my object to retain the arrange- ment and so far as practicable the identical language of the original text. I am prompted to this not only by an affectionate respect for my former instructor, but more especially by a wish to give the cadets an opportunity to profit by Professor Mahan's clear, concise, and comprehensive statements, which are the result of the native ability, the education, started in America, continued in France under Gen. Noizet, and completed by a life-long study ; and the rare experience gained in over forty years' service as Assistant-professor and Professor at the Military Academy. The parts omitted and the new matter introduced have been selected with a view to rejecting only that which has become obsolete through the introduction of improved weapons and methods, and to explaining and illustrating the new features developed from the same causes.