Excerpt from Papers on Subjects Connected With the Duties of the Corps of Royal Engineers, Vol. 8 The subscribers to this volume will observe with regret that it contains no accounts of the Engineering Operations at Delhi and Lucknow, but I hope that these will be obtained in time to appear in the next, for they will be of great value in showing that when troops have science, discipline, and determination on their side, they can, with the Divine blessing, overcome an enemy greatly superior to them in number. The account of the Experiments on Embrasures carried on in the United States will prove useful in determining the best construction for those in casemates, to render them capable of resisting the effects of artillery of greatly increased power which are likely to be brought against them, keeping in view the fact that our own later experiments have proved that by the application of improved trucks to traversing platforms, pivots will no longer be required. 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.