Such a need may very well happen, for example, 1) for the used stratagem in front of an enemy lying behind lakes and wide water communications, in front of which the commander sometimes deigns to launch a phos attack along the path from which his enemy is in danger, and meanwhile will make a formal crossing through such unintentional crossings for the enemy, which he considers himself to be a natural fortitude, to have the other side without any fortification or danger; 2) a roundabout route that continues the trek three times more dangerous and the need for food will happen than through such a crossing; in such and similar cases, these crossings should be established.
12. When the enemy happens to attack behind some river, and he, not allowing troops and artillery to cross bridges, will have his own batteries or fighting teams, in such cases, the art of war proves to try in every possible way to take control of the enemy’s shore, firstly, through artillery, shoot down the batteries that defend the crossing place and try in every possible way to recapture non-stealer far from the shores, send irregular troops for such a retreat and so on, establish military methods for obtaining the shores according to the art of the army commander, and between the point of the Pontoon Officer, the position below and at the top of that crossing, look for ways, that is, 1) where to find the smallest latitude 2) from enemy batteries, closed by some kind of cape 3) for your own lodgment l5som or some kind of hillock m5Ъsto obscured,
4) add a redundant (against that place) non-stealing stay. 5) To such a place, choose a path for bringing pontoons capable of, which, having considered, must, with the report of the commander, vigilantly try to prepare the pontoons in a manner insensitive to the enemy, and at night, bringing the anchors under water to the other side, hide and strengthen the ends of the ropes to them, joining two and three pontoons on their sides, firstly, send a 3-pound cannon and a box under cover to the grenadier; Moreover, the artillery officer must be an artillery officer and have this gun so equipped facing the enemy shore, so that in case of enemy caution he is able to quickly fire and swim with grapeshots and thus, repulsing the enemy, receives part of that shore in the first case, and between the Pontoon Officer the officer constantly rallies other pontoons and sends them across To the same pontoons cannons, entrenching supplies and most of the military people who sailed, they pay link by link, and in this way they will do so until all the pontoons are used, through which a one-time bridge can be built to take possession of the shore and for the crossing.
13. When the crossing follows in this way, then on the same date the Engineer or Artilleryman must build trenches and a battery to cover the bridge and the crossing guns, so as not to allow a reinforced enemy to destroy the bridge and get it in his favor and create a safe camp, about which the necessary crossing regulations are still being explained, so that the first links of the bridge are weapons and military men, just as they were prepared for the attack and pulled out with extreme haste and were immediately followed by others, for which the Pontoon Oeitzers and their subordinates are responsible for using all their speed, of which one at the first link must follow and strengthen it to the shore and attach the arriving links in the proper manner, Because of this, the distance of the river will be reduced, and the bridge will be increased and the speedy transition will be multiplied: for this reason, sailors and craftsmen, after considering the water assault from the pontoon commander, are sent on boats with anchor anchors, so that each link at least has at least one anchor, so that from the strong water rush and from the many and fast crossing the unsatisfactorily fortified bridge could not break the ropes and the bridge did not collapse, which is something none other than the Pontoon Oeitzers, under the deprivation of their stomach, are dangerously MUST HAVE.