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MECISZEWSKI F.[ilip Nereusz] - Fortyfikacya polowa, 1825

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MECISZEWSKI F[ilip Nereusz]. Fortyfikacya polowa. by...Colonel of Inżenierów, Chief of Staff of the Corps of Artillery and Inżenierów; order Stéy Anny 2giéj klassy z brylantami kawalera, decorated with a gold cross woyskowy .

Warsaw, 1825, in the printing house of N. Glücksberg. Pp. [8], IV, 335, [7], f. folding plates. XXXI; 21cm.

Hardcover half leather of period, paper signboard on spine. Good condition, minor rubbing of binding, one plate glued and refilled with paper.

Work dedicated in print to Konstantin Romanov (1779-1831) - Grand Duke of Russia, Commander-in-Chief of the army of the Kingdom of Poland.

Contains chapters: General principles, Open entrenchments, Closed entrenchments, About lines, About elevation of entrenchments, Ways to strengthen entrenchments, Details of construction, Application to the ground of the outline and elevation of entrenchments, About pre-bridge entrenchments, About flooding, About fortified posts, Attak and defense of entrenchments or entrenched villages.Lithographs printed at the Headquarters of the General Staff of the Army.Fold-out engravings with 199 drawings of entrenchments and various fortification fortifications.

F. N. Meciszewski (1786-1830) - colonel, engineer. He studied at the Engineering Academy in Vienna. In 1807-1810 he served in the Austrian army, from 1810 in the army of the Duchy of Warsaw. In 1813 he took part in the defense of the Modlin fortress. From 1815 he became a professor of descriptive geo- metrics at the Jagiellonian University. From 1818 to 1830 he was chief of staff of the Corps of Engineers of the Army of the Kingdom of Poland. Killed by the Minister of War, General Hauk, by cadets on the day of the outbreak of the November Uprising (November 29, 1830). Awarded the Order of War Virtuti Militari.

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