Excerpt from The Military Encyclopaedia: A Technical, Biographical, and Historical Dictionary, Referring Exclusively to the Military Sciences, the Memoirs of Distinguished Soldiers, and the Narratives of Remarkable Battles The multiplication of military works is at once the sign, the necessity, and the evil of the present age - the necessity, because professional knowledge is now happily a condition of the tenure of a commission in the army of the Queen and the east-india Company - the evil, because it neither corresponds with the means nor the convenience of the great body of ofiicers that they should be burthened with a voluminous library. 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.