The Dangers and Defences of New York
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Excerpt from The Dangers and Defences of New York: Addressed to the Hon. J. B. Floyd, Secretary of War In a paper prepared nearly a year ago, but which, from circumstances unnecessary hero to explain, has not yet gone out of my possession, I used the following language, which will now answer my purpose as a brief sketch of what I consider to be the "dangers" to which New York is exposed, and as an introduction to what I shall say as to the defences required. "It seems to me proper to allude to the entire change in the nature of the problem to be considered in the defence of this city, since the system under which the existing works have been constructed, was adopted - or rather, since the defence of New York, as a part of the general system of coast defence, was decided upon by the Board of Engineers of 1816." "As late as 1840, I find the Chief Engineer, in describing the then existing works at the Narrows, (viz: the present Fort Hamilton, Fort La Fayette, on the Long Island side, and the old Forts Tompkins and Richmond, and Batteries Hudson and Morton on Staten Island) reporting that (when these old works shall have been repaired) ´with the Narrows thus defended, and the ´works near the city in perfect order, New York might be ´regarded as pretty well protected against an attack by water ´through this passage.´ And more explicitly he elsewhere states, with regard to repairs of the old works just named on Staten Island, ´Nothing further, indeed, being contemplated for this ´position, except the construction of a small redoubt on a commanding hill a little to the southwest.´ About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
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