Excerpt from Brief Memoir Explanatory of a New Trace of a Front of Fortification in Place of the Present Bastioned FrontAnd thus a great position may not only be taken in a given time, but thereafter held by an enemy superior in naval means, as the point d'appm' of his operations in the Straits of Florida and the Gulf of Mexico, affording him in many respects a position superior to that of Havana.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.