Excerpt from The Personnel of Sea-Coast Defense This table shows at a glance, that this force is entirely inade quate for the defense of the sea-coast fortifications designed to protect our cities and harbors. For, considering the Atlantic coast alone, it appears that but three batteries are assigned to the great Northern bay extending from New Brunswick to Cape Cod, but two batteries at St. Augustine for the whole Southern bay from Cape Hatteras to Key West, while the great Central bay from Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras, though rich in fine harbors and great cities, has but twenty-two batteries distributed among eight garrisoned works. But a single battery comprising 44 officers and men cannot be called a protection for the whole coast of Maine; neither can two batteries insure the safety of Boston, and the Massachusetts coast; nor is New York defensible, with but two batteries covering the East River approach and with but seven at the most, that by the Narrows. Indeed these scattered fragments of the regiments of artillery are not garrisons, but rather care takers of the works at which they are stationed, and so long as the Artillery retains its present numerical strength, the coast and frontier must remain inadequately defended. 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.