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Obstacles to our
own operahouses
as defences against
the operations of
an enemy
The advantage of
being able to traverse
them at pleasure
without loss of time.
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That If ever a river
should be as
a river to an
enemy as
dry land to ourselves.
River as are mutual means
of defence
Great must be the
advantage
If remaining
army as a defence
they should
cease to
if, while covering
us from the attack
if the enemy they
matter would be
so arranged that
we should no longer
find them.
That while affording
us protection they
should no longer
afford any to
the enemy
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If of two adverse armies the
Expedients have been found out and practised whereby a river or other piece of nature of any width may be crossed traversed by an army of any magnitude, without any stoppage and within a compass time little if at all exceeding that which it would require to pass over in an equal extent of dry ground: and this without any additional incumbrance over and above that of the carriages and beasts of draught which necessary to for the convey conveyance of the same quantity of baggage
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jeremy bentham |
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benjamin constant |
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