Military Dictionary: Comprising Terms, Scientific and Otherwise, Connected with the Science of War (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Military Dictionary: Comprising Terms, Scientific and Otherwise, Connected With the Science of War

The number of expensive books to which the military student must have recourse, in order to obtain the varied information required in the different branches of the service, struck me some years ago as being a source of great inconvenience. To avoid this, I considered it advisable to bring out a work, by condensing into one volume all that is indispensable, as well as much with which it is desirable an officer should become acquainted.

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