Soldiers and Sailors: Or Anecdotes, Details, and Recollections of Naval and Military Life (Classic Reprint)

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Weapons of war. Artillery. Train of artillery. Chevaux de-frise. Bows and arrows. The old archer. - The musket - The bayonet. - Captain Von Selmnitz. Broad-swords, - Highlanders.

Artillery and stores sent to Spain. - James II. Of Scotland - Buo naparte and Colonel Evain. - Wooden cannon - Brass twenty-four pounder from the wreck of the Royal George. - The brass sixty eight - pounder in the Tower, called the Great Harry.' - A beautiful mortar. -the new destructive power.

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