“And when the counter-scarp is taken, it is necessary, at the discretion of the General Director, in which place and how he is able to cross the ditch, if the water one is to drain the water or cover the gallery, and the ditch is dry, it is necessary to make a gallery across the ditch in every possible way, and if it is necessary to make a gap with a mine, then show it to the Mineral Officer under which place he should lay a mine: when an assault is ordered, the General Director must create a disposition that will be at that assault: Engineering officers with seconded working people belonging to the materials so that they can take posts or make arrangements.”
“If their State is in danger of being besieged from an attack by an enemy army; The General Director must watch this very closely, and he himself must be in the main danger zones from the attack of the enemy army; and, in other words, to determine the Headquarters Officers, when they expect to go to many critical positions of the non-Army, it is necessary for the chief officers of the Engineers to determine which, in these critical situations, should not have sleep-deprived care, not sparing their health: always have a strong lookout from an enemy attack.
day, so as not to give them into the hands of the enemy, the great fortified fortress should be fortified from enemy cannon fire from the field, and that fortress of great artillery and all sorts of fire and other things should be devastated by the enemy's troops and batteries to the floor, and there should be no small strength of one's army to maintain the fortress and caresses, one must carefully watch so as not to allow the enemy to lay a mine under the fortress; For this reason, it is necessary for mineral servants to build controls from the fortress, and in such cases it is very necessary to be a careful engineer, and to consult with the Chief Commander, in order to be completely serviceable in that fortress and at all necessary times to avoid the enemy in attack and other cases, so that he can always cause great damage.”
“About the position, General Maora.” 1st.
“The General Master must be courageous, hardworking and caring, and in all cases in the military and in other matters and in the sciences, he must be very skilled in such forces, like the Director General: who must be so knowledgeable in all kinds of corrections, so that by the post of General Director he should always send him into oblivion.”
“When special buildings are assigned to him under his Directorate, and repairs or new constructions are undertaken in the buildings, he must obtain drawings of all the buildings and carry out projects thoroughly in his own way, and to offer the accessories for a genuine confirmation to the General Director and demand exactly as shown in his The General Director's positions, as well as on the state of his Directorate of all fortresses, what will be built, and what should henceforth be done in military and other cases for the Fortification, as well as against reports received from sub-commands of the State Duma, can be reported by the General Director three times a year; and from distant mfst twice, and the non-existence of the General Director should be offered and demanded for tfm buildings, in other ways as shown above this year, it should be.”
3rd. “just like in the absence of the General Director at the Main Army, he should be on the march and during attacks, which belongs to his business demand from the chief commander of the army and correct everything in the same way as the General Director.”
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Full term Gen.-m. De-Coulomb about the benefits and necessity of equalizing the ranks of Engineering officers with artillery officers!).
(Koshya from the original text preserved in the Moscow Archive of the General Staff).
“To the State Military College.