United Service Magazine and Naval Military Journal, Part 1H. Colburn, 1855 - Military art and science |
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... breach the shoulders of the bastions . After the breaches are made either in the half - moon or the bastions , the batteries should be replaced in their original positions , so as to be prepared to rake the top of the breach if ...
... breach the shoulders of the bastions . After the breaches are made either in the half - moon or the bastions , the batteries should be replaced in their original positions , so as to be prepared to rake the top of the breach if ...
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... breach . But we must then remember that the breaches in Vauban's time embraced the two faces of a bastion , and were ... breach of from twenty to twenty - five yards , we find it does not very much exceed the number made use of at the ...
... breach . But we must then remember that the breaches in Vauban's time embraced the two faces of a bastion , and were ... breach of from twenty to twenty - five yards , we find it does not very much exceed the number made use of at the ...
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... breach is too escarped , because the horizontal cut has been begun too high , firing will not render it easier . Four twenty - four pounders from the lodgment of the covered way will breach in four or five days , and this breach will be ...
... breach is too escarped , because the horizontal cut has been begun too high , firing will not render it easier . Four twenty - four pounders from the lodgment of the covered way will breach in four or five days , and this breach will be ...
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... breach , which was never entirely finished , because the citadel capitulated before it was completely practicable for an assault , took seventeen hours and a half of firing , 1,197 24 - pounder shot were ex- pended , 300 of which were ...
... breach , which was never entirely finished , because the citadel capitulated before it was completely practicable for an assault , took seventeen hours and a half of firing , 1,197 24 - pounder shot were ex- pended , 300 of which were ...
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... breach sixteen yards in length was made in the left face of the half - moon of the bastion of Chambieres , according to the principles laid down by the French Artillery Commission of 1834 , in which the same circumstances were observed ...
... breach sixteen yards in length was made in the left face of the half - moon of the bastion of Chambieres , according to the principles laid down by the French Artillery Commission of 1834 , in which the same circumstances were observed ...
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