Reports of Committees: 16th Congress, 1st Session - 49th Congress, 1st Session, Volum 4 |
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... 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 ) into either one of our harbors , and from ...
... 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 ) into either one of our harbors , and from ...
Pàgina 6
... armed with the fifteen or twenty - inch guns now likely to be introduced , able , probably , to demolish the forts . In all ages of the world ambition and rapacity have found occasion to plunder defenceless cities . To be able to ...
... armed with the fifteen or twenty - inch guns now likely to be introduced , able , probably , to demolish the forts . In all ages of the world ambition and rapacity have found occasion to plunder defenceless cities . To be able to ...
Pàgina 10
... armed , iron - clad gunboats could , in one short month , in despite of any opposition that could be made by extemporized batteries , pass up the St. Lawrence into the lakes , and shell every city and village from Ogdensburg to Chicago ...
... armed , iron - clad gunboats could , in one short month , in despite of any opposition that could be made by extemporized batteries , pass up the St. Lawrence into the lakes , and shell every city and village from Ogdensburg to Chicago ...
Pàgina 16
... armed with them . Balls of a half ton weight , thrown with the proper velocity , several striking at the same moment , would probably soon destroy any vessel hitherto devised . Special experiments with this class of ordnance , and with ...
... armed with them . Balls of a half ton weight , thrown with the proper velocity , several striking at the same moment , would probably soon destroy any vessel hitherto devised . Special experiments with this class of ordnance , and with ...
Pàgina 73
... armed vessels could not enter . And even if the works were carried , they could not be maintained without the most enormous expense , nor , in fact , without efforts which no government three thousand miles off could well make , and all ...
... armed vessels could not enter . And even if the works were carried , they could not be maintained without the most enormous expense , nor , in fact , without efforts which no government three thousand miles off could well make , and all ...
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