JB/157/028/004

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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 in
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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gage, artillery ammunition &c on hand could rivers of any width and in any number be passed by an army of any magnitude without bling and in as little time nearly as an equal extend of dry ground, and that without any halt, and addition either to the quantity or to the expence of the incumbrances which it would otherwise have in its suite the advantages which such an army must possess over any against an enemy new country or an army not possessed of the same fanties advantage are the equally obvious to and indisputable.

Identifier: | JB/157/028/004"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 157.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	157	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	028	Info in main headings field	cancelled
Image	004	Titles
Category	rudiments sheet (brouillon)	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l munn [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	benjamin constant
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Notes public		ID Number	53398
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