Reports of Committees: 16th Congress, 1st Session - 49th Congress, 1st Session, Volum 4 |
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Pàgina 5
... even if well garrisoned and leavily armed with the best ordnance hitherto in the service , prevent , by day and by night , the entrance of iron - clad steam.vessels ( such as are now maintained on Europeon peace establishments ) ...
... even if well garrisoned and leavily armed with the best ordnance hitherto in the service , prevent , by day and by night , the entrance of iron - clad steam.vessels ( such as are now maintained on Europeon peace establishments ) ...
Pàgina 6
... as a part of their ordinary peace establishments , a fleet of vessels not only able to pass our forts uninjured , but , armed with the fifteen or twenty - in now likely to be introduced , able , probably , to demolish the forts .
... as a part of their ordinary peace establishments , a fleet of vessels not only able to pass our forts uninjured , but , armed with the fifteen or twenty - in now likely to be introduced , able , probably , to demolish the forts .
Pàgina 16
If good twenty - inch guns can be fabricated , it is seriously doubted whether ships can be built which could sustain , for any considerable time , the concentrated fire of a large fort armed with them . Balls of a half ton weight ...
If good twenty - inch guns can be fabricated , it is seriously doubted whether ships can be built which could sustain , for any considerable time , the concentrated fire of a large fort armed with them . Balls of a half ton weight ...
Pàgina 73
... could approach the hostile ships and drive them from their anchorage , or compel them to surrender , and most of which , from their draught of water , could take refuge in the inlets that other armed vessels could not enter .
... could approach the hostile ships and drive them from their anchorage , or compel them to surrender , and most of which , from their draught of water , could take refuge in the inlets that other armed vessels could not enter .
Pàgina 110
From being the most expensive of all modes of defence , naval superiority in our hands may thus become the cheapest : two or three small armed vessels on each lake , employed as convoys to the ordinary navigation , and to the transports ...
From being the most expensive of all modes of defence , naval superiority in our hands may thus become the cheapest : two or three small armed vessels on each lake , employed as convoys to the ordinary navigation , and to the transports ...
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| Títol | Reports of Committees: 16th Congress, 1st Session - 49th Congress, 1st Session, Volum 4 United States congressional serial set |
| Autor | United States. Congress. House |
| Publicat | 1862 |
| Original de | Universitat d’Oxford |
| Digitalitzat el | 14 Des. 2006 |
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