Reports of Committees: 16th Congress, 1st Session - 49th Congress, 1st Session, Volum 4 |
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... probably , no longer remains true ; but if still true , it is none the less important to us to know whether our fortifications have sufficient strength to endure the modern tests to which , in the event of a war with a first - class ...
... probably , no longer remains true ; but if still true , it is none the less important to us to know whether our fortifications have sufficient strength to endure the modern tests to which , in the event of a war with a first - class ...
Pàgina 6
... probably single ones without sacrifice , ) can achieve a simi- lar result in 1862 . PRESENT SYSTEM OF DEFENCES DEFECTIVE . Here , then , is the first defect in our present system of frontier de- fence . It is vulnerable . The ...
... probably single ones without sacrifice , ) can achieve a simi- lar result in 1862 . PRESENT SYSTEM OF DEFENCES DEFECTIVE . Here , then , is the first defect in our present system of frontier de- fence . It is vulnerable . The ...
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... probably in one month , far more than suffice to place our frontiers in a perfectly defensible condition . The Pacific frontier is , of course , excepted in the above remark . But if , on scientific investigation , the engineers and ...
... probably in one month , far more than suffice to place our frontiers in a perfectly defensible condition . The Pacific frontier is , of course , excepted in the above remark . But if , on scientific investigation , the engineers and ...
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... probably soon destroy any vessel hitherto devised . Special experiments with this class of ordnance , and with improved projectiles , should be authorized by Congress . The knowledge which our officers on land and sea are now gaining ...
... probably soon destroy any vessel hitherto devised . Special experiments with this class of ordnance , and with improved projectiles , should be authorized by Congress . The knowledge which our officers on land and sea are now gaining ...
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... probably had not occurred . We should have had two forts where we now have one ; the cost of all would have been but about thirty - one million five hundred thousand dollars ; their peace garrisons would have been five thousand nine ...
... probably had not occurred . We should have had two forts where we now have one ; the cost of all would have been but about thirty - one million five hundred thousand dollars ; their peace garrisons would have been five thousand nine ...
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