Waterloo Booklet - Foreword

LeBlond's Treatise of Artillery
Foreword

    LeBlond's, A Treatise of Artillery, etc., which was published in London in 1746, was contributed to Napoleonic Literature in electronic format by Andrew Ross Charles of Canada. Not having access to a scanner, Andrew is manually transcribing the text into Microsoft Word. Since I have been forced to do the same thing myself at times, I understand the work involved in this and sincerely appreciate the effort Andrew is putting forth to contribute the Treatise to Napoleonic Literature, and ultimately, to you, the reader.
    This electronic reproduction of the Treatise accurately reproduces the text, to include the archaic form of many of occurrences of the letter "s" ( f) which is used throughout. Needless to say, this increases the tedium of manual transcription. This archaic form of "s" appears throught the text except that it is never used on the first letter of the first word of a sentence if that word begins with "S" or on the last letter of any word that ends with "s." For example: "Seven filly fifters married feven pipers." There are illustrations in the Treatise that Andrew and I will somehow make available for this electronic reproduction.
    You have undoubtedly noticed the unusually large size of this text, which is 18 point. Unfortunately, this is the smallest font I could use that would produce a result wherein the the italicized text appears in the same weight as the normal text, without going to the opposite extreme and making it so small that it would be difficult to read. At 12 and 14 point, the text had a very unpleasing look that I just did not like. If you prefer to decrease the font size, you can do so; however, any change you make to the font size will affect all text appearing in this frame while you are in my website. If you go to another website, you will see it in the font that it was meant to be seen in. Additionally, if you leave my website, go to another, and then come back here, the normal font for my website will be resumed.
    How to change the font size:

Netscape. Click on VIEW, DECREASE FONT, or press CTRL+]. Each time you do this, the size of the font will be decreased by one increment. If you will be remaining in my website after reading the Treatise, you should change the font size back to 18 point, otherwise the font size of the text on my other pages, which is normally 12 point, will appear very small. To increase the font size, click on VIEW, INCREASE FONT, or press CTRL+[.
Internet Explorer. Basically the same as with Netscape. Click on VIEW, FONTS, SMALLER or smallest.
Other Browsers. Unfortunately, I don't know because I have no experience with anything but Netscape's browsers.

If you want to print any of the Treatise, except for the Title Page, which appears in normal text, you will probably want to decrease the size of the font. When printed at the smaller fonts, there is no difference in the appearance of italicized and normal text such as you will see on your monitor.

John Schneider
Napoleonic Literature

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