The military engineer [electronic resource] : or, a treatise on the attack and defence of all kinds of fortified places. In which are explained the construction of the necessary works, with the method of designing them on paper, and transferring the plan to the ground; the attacks of large towns, with their different outworks most in use; and also of smaller places, forts and other posts, which occur in the course of a war; the manner of escalades and surprizes; and all other matters relating either to the works or operations, necessary to convey a full knowledge of the art of engineering. Composed by M. Le Blond, Professor Of Mathematics, For the use of the French Noblesse. To which is added, a succinct account of three remarkable sieges at different periods, by which the progress of the Art is pointed out. In two parts. Illustrated with twenty copper-plates.