Inundation

The act of letting water into a country, so that it shall be overflowed to prevent the approach of an enemy. In the Instruction adre ée aux officiers d’Infanterie pour tracer et construire toutes sortes d’Ouvrages de Campagne, . par A. P. I. Belair, Chef de Brigade , may be found some very sensible observations on the means of making inundations to answer military purposes, see page 119, . Chapitre Huitieme, Moyens de faire des In on dat ions . We likewise refer our military readers to the Elemens de Fortification , published by the same author, see pages, 75, 82, 83, and 84. In page 294 of his Dictionnaire Militaire , some excellent observations upon the same subject, may be seen under the article Architecture hydraulique .