Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, Volume 5W. Mitchell and Son, 1861 - Military art and science |
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... construction , or the stoking and driving . I have preferred , and I hope I am justified in so doing , the former course ; I believe it will be more interesting generally . Both are equally im- portant ; indeed the latter , the ...
... construction , or the stoking and driving . I have preferred , and I hope I am justified in so doing , the former course ; I believe it will be more interesting generally . Both are equally im- portant ; indeed the latter , the ...
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... construction of these lines was carried on with great vigour for a period of ten years , under the immediate eye of Cotoner ; but , after his death , the funds in the public treasury having become nearly exhausted by the vast ...
... construction of these lines was carried on with great vigour for a period of ten years , under the immediate eye of Cotoner ; but , after his death , the funds in the public treasury having become nearly exhausted by the vast ...
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... construction is often peculiar , the most precise note must be made of their strength , durability , & c . , and also as to their size and width , as in the latter particular they are so often inferior to the average width of roads ...
... construction is often peculiar , the most precise note must be made of their strength , durability , & c . , and also as to their size and width , as in the latter particular they are so often inferior to the average width of roads ...
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... construction is often peculiar , the most precise note must be made of their strength , durability , & c . , and also as to their size and width , as in the latter particular they are so often inferior to the average width of roads ...
... construction is often peculiar , the most precise note must be made of their strength , durability , & c . , and also as to their size and width , as in the latter particular they are so often inferior to the average width of roads ...
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... construction of fire - arms have greatly increased the distance at which infantry can fire with precision , and consequently act with effect . To render the infantry soldier a good marksman , ought therefore un- doubtedly to be ...
... construction of fire - arms have greatly increased the distance at which infantry can fire with precision , and consequently act with effect . To render the infantry soldier a good marksman , ought therefore un- doubtedly to be ...
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Page 281 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Page 253 - ... owing to the prevalence of intellectual and moral culture in the one case, and the want of it in the other. No other cause can be named, adequate to the...
Page 447 - I shall be deemed foolhardy in engaging for the defence of the empire with an Army composed of such a force of Militia. I may be so, I confess it ; I should infinitely prefer, and should feel more confidence in, an army of regular troops. But I know I shall not have these.
Page 447 - I know of no mode of resistance, much less of protection, from this danger, excepting by an army in the field capable of meeting and contending with its formidable enemy, aided by all the means of fortification which experience in war and science can suggest.
Page 55 - She quells the floods below, As they roar on the shore When the stormy winds do blow ; When the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow.
Page 275 - vails the vain knight-errant's brand ? — O Douglas for thy leading wand ! Fierce Randolph for thy speed ! O for one hour of Wallace wight, Or well-skilled Bruce, to rule the fight, And cry " Saint Andrew and our right...
Page 604 - This species, commonly raised for the table (Fig. 319), consists of a footstalk, or stipes, ranging from an inch and a half to two inches and a half in height.
Page 293 - When any force acts upon a body in motion, the change of motion which it produces is the same in magnitude and direction as the effect of the force upon the body at rest.
Page 447 - This would give a mass of organized force amounting to about 150,000 men, which we might immediately set to work to discipline. This alone would enable us to establish the strength of our army. This, with an augmentation of the force of the regular army, which would not cost 400.000/., would put the country on its legs in respect to personal force, and I would engage for its defence, old as I am.
Page 59 - In the last number of the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society there are the following methods of measuring angles and obtaining the perpendicular breadth of the river, by Colonel Everest.