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 #246989

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.