United Service Magazine and Naval Military Journal, Part 1H. Colburn, 1855 - Military art and science |
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... yards of Sebastopol . A number of ruined camp kitchens of a very large size had been occupied by a party of Russian Rifles , who , under cover , were enabled to pick off the gunners of Green - hill battery . Our Rifles , headed by ...
... yards of Sebastopol . A number of ruined camp kitchens of a very large size had been occupied by a party of Russian Rifles , who , under cover , were enabled to pick off the gunners of Green - hill battery . Our Rifles , headed by ...
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... yards of the Russian Flag- staff battery and mud fort , is in a position to do considerable mischief . During the preceding week it had been seldom fired , and the Russians calculated upon finding most of the guns injured or worn out ...
... yards of the Russian Flag- staff battery and mud fort , is in a position to do considerable mischief . During the preceding week it had been seldom fired , and the Russians calculated upon finding most of the guns injured or worn out ...
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... 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 entertained of the mortars brought ...
... 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 entertained of the mortars brought ...
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... , begin at the point , directing the fire towards the shoulders , until a breach of from five - and - twenty to thirty yards has been made , being always careful to ŚŚĄ sap from three to six feet near the foot 1855. ] 9.
... , begin at the point , directing the fire towards the shoulders , until a breach of from five - and - twenty to thirty yards has been made , being always careful to ŚŚĄ sap from three to six feet near the foot 1855. ] 9.
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... yards , we find it does not very much exceed the number made use of at the present day . For , as Vauban says , " it is a very rare thing to see guns made use of as they ought to be . " Bousmard , towards the end of the eighteenth ...
... yards , we find it does not very much exceed the number made use of at the present day . For , as Vauban says , " it is a very rare thing to see guns made use of as they ought to be . " Bousmard , towards the end of the eighteenth ...
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