Abstract
The beginning of Military Geology dates back, according to historians of this science, when Napoleon recruited four geologists for his campaign from Egypt at the end of the 18th century. However, the first writings on this subject will not appear until the next century. Despite the fact that in Spain this science has never developed, it was the Spanish military man and enlightened Juan Sánchez Cisneros, the author in 1819 of the first work that deals with this matter in a specific way. The work of Sánchez Cisneros has been studied in some publications and in some thesis but never as the initiator of the science of Military Geology; a discipline that has been widely studied in all developed countries, in which a large amount of literature on this subject has been produced. In this lines it is proposed that the founder of Military Geology in Spain was Juan Sánchez Cisneros and that his book Elementos sublimes de geografía física aplicados a la ciencia de campaña was the first work of this discipline in Europe.
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