Reports of Committees: 16th Congress, 1st Session - 49th Congress, 1st Session, Volum 4 |
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Pàgina 110
... armed vessels on each lake , employed as convoys to the ordinary navigation , and to the transports bearing troops and munitions , being all that would be needed . Military enterprises would , in this way , be warded off from the ...
... armed vessels on each lake , employed as convoys to the ordinary navigation , and to the transports bearing troops and munitions , being all that would be needed . Military enterprises would , in this way , be warded off from the ...
Pàgina 143
... armed steamships , omitting vessels constructed for local uses merely , such as floating batteries . For the purpose of first considering this proposition in its simplest terms , we will begin by supposing the nation to possess but a ...
... armed steamships , omitting vessels constructed for local uses merely , such as floating batteries . For the purpose of first considering this proposition in its simplest terms , we will begin by supposing the nation to possess but a ...
Pàgina 148
... ships aground . The enemy , knowing of what the defensive arrangements consist , will come provided with the requisite num- ber of sailing or steam vessels , armed with bomb 148 FORTIFICATIONS AND SEA - COAST DEFENCES .
... ships aground . The enemy , knowing of what the defensive arrangements consist , will come provided with the requisite num- ber of sailing or steam vessels , armed with bomb 148 FORTIFICATIONS AND SEA - COAST DEFENCES .
Pàgina 149
... armed with bomb - cannon , against which the thicker bulwarks of the floating batteries would avail nothing . He would , be- sides , hardly fail to provide himself with bomb - ketches armed with heavy sea- mortars ; and as there could ...
... armed with bomb - cannon , against which the thicker bulwarks of the floating batteries would avail nothing . He would , be- sides , hardly fail to provide himself with bomb - ketches armed with heavy sea- mortars ; and as there could ...
Pàgina 152
... armed with one heavy gun only , beat off one or two British ships - of - war without sustaining any material injury from their fire . But this circumstance ought merely to have proved the superiority which guns on shore must always , in ...
... armed with one heavy gun only , beat off one or two British ships - of - war without sustaining any material injury from their fire . But this circumstance ought merely to have proved the superiority which guns on shore must always , in ...
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