United Service Magazine and Naval Military Journal, Part 1H. Colburn, 1855 - Military art and science |
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... batteries of 30 guns have been erected much closer to the walls , and the French are erecting batteries with the heavy guns taken from the Henri IV . , which went on shore during the hurricane . On the 7th December these new batteries ...
... batteries of 30 guns have been erected much closer to the walls , and the French are erecting batteries with the heavy guns taken from the Henri IV . , which went on shore during the hurricane . On the 7th December these new batteries ...
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... batteries , but then withdrew , not being supported by a reserve . They had scarcely got back to their own battery when the Russian earthworks opened a tremendous fire of shot and shell against both the English and French lines , but ...
... batteries , but then withdrew , not being supported by a reserve . They had scarcely got back to their own battery when the Russian earthworks opened a tremendous fire of shot and shell against both the English and French lines , but ...
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... batteries are within 329 yards of the walls , the English batteries are not up so close . They are waiting to get up the new guns from the Stromboli and Firebrand , which the state of the roads had prevented . Great hopes are ...
... batteries are within 329 yards of the walls , the English batteries are not up so close . They are waiting to get up the new guns from the Stromboli and Firebrand , which the state of the roads had prevented . Great hopes are ...
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... batteries which should be erected on the crowning of the covered way ; that is to say , the counter - batteries and breaching - bat- teries : - " The first in order should be two of four guns each ; destined to breaching the half - moon ...
... batteries which should be erected on the crowning of the covered way ; that is to say , the counter - batteries and breaching - bat- teries : - " The first in order should be two of four guns each ; destined to breaching the half - moon ...
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... batteries should first of all design , as it were , by their shot upon the revêtement , the breach which is to be made , by hol- lowing out three strong outlines - the one horizontal and as near the bottom of the ditch as it is possible ...
... batteries should first of all design , as it were , by their shot upon the revêtement , the breach which is to be made , by hol- lowing out three strong outlines - the one horizontal and as near the bottom of the ditch as it is possible ...
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