In general, the war with Prussia was a good school for our pontoons, for whom it presented repeated opportunities to build bridges, very diverse in properties, and to resolve many private issues related to building bridges. Let us point out here some of these cases 3).
In the campaign of 1758, after the capture of Tilsit, a raft bridge was built to cross the N$man for Russian troops; he had 93 soot. length and consisted of 31 rafts tightly packed together. Job
1) Mater. for East. Eng. Claim. in Russia, ©, Laskovsky Ch. Sh. 1865 Guide to knowledge. about hiking bridges NЪmogo.
2-3) Journal of military actions of the Russian army in 1760 (Arch. V.T. depot No. 15330). Mater. for East. Eng. Claim. in Russia, ©. Laskovsky part Sh. 1865
was carried out within 70 hours, by 300 soldiers and 12 city carpenters. After the troops crossed back, the bridge was dismantled by 8 people in 17 minutes, and another 200 people were needed to lower the rafts from the axis of the bridge.
In the campaign of 1759, near Kulm, Russka built a bridge made of copper pontoons across the Vistula; he had 80 soot. length and, for greater stability, a longitudinal rope was stretched, 6 dm. thickness, fortified on both banks with three four-legged anchors, and one rope was also tied behind a nearby tree; In addition, anchors were thrown every four pontoons. A storm that broke out during the night completely destroyed the bridge; first of all, the anchors, thrown into the river, set off from the bridge; this imparted some movement to the bridge, as a result of which the longitudinal rope tore out three anchors with which it was attached to the shore, and even tore up a tree. The pontoons filled with water and, without exception, sank; pulling them out, thanks to the sandy soil of the bottom, was fraught with great difficulty.
In the campaign of 1760, when the Russians moved out from their position under Kuntsendor, they were directed to the river. Oder, which had 40 soot in this place. width, two bridges, one on canvas pontoons, and the other, at a distance of 20 fathoms. from him, on the riding side, on the goats. Since in the river On the Oder, during strong winds, the water rose significantly, then, for greater stability of the bridge on the trestles, they considered it useful to stretch two thick ropes over the decking, strengthening their ends on both banks with several anchors and tied the bridge trestle to these ropes. A detachment of 20,000 people with artillery crossed over these two bridges to the enemy bank, and the bridges had to remain built until the troops crossed the river back. The next day, after the bridges were built, the water began to flow into the river, and, instead of dismantling the trestle bridge, which, if destroyed, could threaten the pontoon bridge, they tried to strengthen it with the load of the flooring with logs and blocks. Despite this precaution, the constantly rising water lifted the decking, and before anyone had time to do anything against it, the rising water carried away all the bridges located on the bridge decking. Everything that was not tied to the ropes passed quite freely into the spans between the pontoons; but when the longitudinal ropes were torn from the shore anchors that held them, the water carried all the goats entangled in them to the pontoon bridge, right under the pontoons, where they began continuously. hitting the pontoons. Between dark, night fell, and a detachment approached the bridge to cross the river back. His position was very difficult, because he had to cross over the only remaining bridge, which was obviously threatened by the same danger; however, thanks to detailed orders and strict