Excerpt from 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
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 officers that they should be burthened with a voluminous library.
To contribute to the unavoidable demand, and at the same time tend to diminish the difficulty with which it is associated, the present volume has been prepared. It comprehends the essence of many excellent works, discarding so much of the older publications as modern improvements and exigencies have rendered obsolete, and seizing upon the salient features of more recent productions. The volumes of James, Campbell, Burn, Yule, Napier, Grose, Walshe, Kimber, Spearman, Griffiths, Meyrick, Simmonds, Paisley, and Hough, - the Queen's Regulations, the "Military Calendar," the "Military Panorama," the "United Service Magazine," the "Dictionnaire Historique," the "Articles of War," the "British Officer," the "Lives of Military Commanders," the histories of the American and Peninsular wars, the "Despatches of the Duke of Wellington," the Parliamentary Blue Books, the works of Polybius, C?sar, Xenophon, Strabo, &c., have all been rendered tributary to the completeness of this Encyclop?dia.
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