Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, Volume 5W. Mitchell and Son, 1861 - Military art and science |
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Page 115
... experiments were made with the two Swiss rifles , the Baden rifle , Belgian , Prussian , and Enfield rifle muskets . The result of these experiments was a marked superiority in favour of the two Swiss rifles . At 654 yards the Enfield ...
... experiments were made with the two Swiss rifles , the Baden rifle , Belgian , Prussian , and Enfield rifle muskets . The result of these experiments was a marked superiority in favour of the two Swiss rifles . At 654 yards the Enfield ...
Page 116
... experiments , however carefully conducted . It has been suggested , also , and with great reason , that either the Enfield rifle , or the shooter , at Beverloo must have been a very bad specimen ; since at 650 yards the hits in a target ...
... experiments , however carefully conducted . It has been suggested , also , and with great reason , that either the Enfield rifle , or the shooter , at Beverloo must have been a very bad specimen ; since at 650 yards the hits in a target ...
Page 117
... experiment that enabled them to form an opinion in favour of the Enfield in contradistinction to their own ? Mr ... experiments to ascertain the relative merits of the two kinds of rifle . Mr. W. F. HIGGINS : I think that question ...
... experiment that enabled them to form an opinion in favour of the Enfield in contradistinction to their own ? Mr ... experiments to ascertain the relative merits of the two kinds of rifle . Mr. W. F. HIGGINS : I think that question ...
Page 121
... EXPERIMENTS AT WOOLWICH , 1845 , AND ON " RUBY " AT PORTSMOUTH , 1856 . SPHERICAL SHOT ONLY . By CAPTAIN E. PELLEW HALSTED , R.N. [ It being inconsistent with the objects of the Institution that political matter should be introduced ...
... EXPERIMENTS AT WOOLWICH , 1845 , AND ON " RUBY " AT PORTSMOUTH , 1856 . SPHERICAL SHOT ONLY . By CAPTAIN E. PELLEW HALSTED , R.N. [ It being inconsistent with the objects of the Institution that political matter should be introduced ...
Page 129
... experiment " had been made at Portsmouth , to verify results said to have been obtained in America ; and I , therefore ... experiments were instituted at Woolwich , with the direct object of eliciting any cir cumstances of value , which ...
... experiment " had been made at Portsmouth , to verify results said to have been obtained in America ; and I , therefore ... experiments were instituted at Woolwich , with the direct object of eliciting any cir cumstances of value , which ...
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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.