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Excerpt from Manual for Engineer Troops: Consisting of Part I. Pouton Drill, Part II. Rules for Conducting a Siege, Part III. School of the Sap, Part IV. Military Mining, Part V. Construction of Batteries
In the instruction for the Pontonier, it has been at tempted to devise a drill applicable to the various Pon ton Trains now in use in our Army.
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