How many drawings and notes still belong to this day, which, as stated above at the suggestion of the former General Lieutenant Lyubras, should be archived, can be collected and, when making an inventory, submitted to me as quickly as possible without presenting any excuses or impossibilities.
As for the defense of the fortresses, the Master's Engineer relies on him. General Mayura, as a skillful and fairly practiced Engineer, was prescribed to him by the General in one point, and for those who are now on commanders, depending on their rank and skill, although it is considered necessary and necessary to prescribe the following: 1) when the fortress is in danger of attack, then all stone buildings in the fortress must be torn down, and wooden ones, if time is allowed break down, and what can be used for the benefit of the fortress, and burn the rest, cut down gardens, groves, burial pits, etc., fill up and level so that from the glacis three hundred fathoms in the circle of the fortress, as much as possible, the elevated areas in front of the fortress are cleared and leveled, as well as defels as much as possible through temporary captivity or Another way to harm the enemy is not useful; 2) The engineer, in a critical situation, should have, looking at the plan, quite clear considerations that are due to the enemy’s ability to attack and how there are weaknesses in the critical structure and that in the current time and circumstances it will be possible to correct one thing and prepare another, for example, in the lines of the attacked part of the fort. create countermines if possible, arrange safe retreats by creating temporary Galleries from the lisades or earthen and woolen mosses, and especially in dry ditches, leading to have armed ships capable and possible for retreating from external outbuildings and attacking the enemy with attacks in the ditch. 3rd) Where there is a great weakness in the fortifications, it will be possible to designate on the plans different figures of retrenchments and abschnites and keep it secretly, preparing all the necessary materials for this if there are stone buildings in the vicinity of the attacked bastions, then it is not possible and they can be used to prevent the enemy from entering the fortress and there will be something useful then build embrasures in them. 4th) try to prepare different types and lengths of polygardens, for example, timber with loopholes and several links of a decent number of wooden caponiers, different types of slingshots, spears, earthen bags, tours, fascines, different wicker arms, assault logs, different hooks of thick boards for blendings, baskets for carrying earth, mine frames, and other such supplies, depending on the state of the fortress of force and rituals in the attacks of the enemy, sometimes a very plural number must be prepared and indeed it is prepared, but in using these the need and opportunity are so unequal that some must immediately be used at the first entry of the enemy into action, the other of them cannot be endured for a long time and can be used on occasion, but sometimes inactivity may remain, then For the sake of this case, it may be honorable for the last thing in the position of Engineer that he try to keep all the prepared supplies, not only in decent and safe ones, but also in proximity to those places where they should be used, but moreover, by composing such a Disposition in advance so that from them it is first prepared, which is the first need it will be so that the people appointed by the commandant will not be idle and the work done from them can serve in favor of the fortress. 5th) When the siege has already been carried out, then as much as possible to carry out reconnaissance, everyone capable of entering and bringing to the fortress both by dry and water routes is occupied by the enemy, or some of them, out of ignorance, are left without occupation, to have notes about the disposal of his camp circumference and countervailing lines and communication between them and what is useful for him If the fortress is found, it will be reported to the commandant. 6th) When the enemy approaches the fortress, then it is necessary to create small pits or land mines in decent places and, depending on the circumstances of the time, make temporary and counter-questions. 7th) and even in such cases, due to the state of the vastness of the fortresses with their outer fortifications, the garrisons can’t always be strong enough in their present number of people, but they often happen sometimes in larger numbers, while at the same time they happen in smaller numbers,