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Pàgina 149
... 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 be no guarding against the effects of the long ranges of these , a few such ...
... 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 be no guarding against the effects of the long ranges of these , a few such ...
Pàgina 150
... batteries ; still there will remain great efforts to be made and great amounts to be expended to complete the defensive array . But a reliance on steam batteries would lead to expenditure vastly greater , because with them all has yet ...
... batteries ; still there will remain great efforts to be made and great amounts to be expended to complete the defensive array . But a reliance on steam batteries would lead to expenditure vastly greater , because with them all has yet ...
Pàgina 153
... battery continually replying with a slow but destructive effect . The Pompée , at which ship alone it directed its fire had forty ... batteries supporting the Danish vessels at about ninety guns . 2d . Of four sail of the line , mounting ...
... battery continually replying with a slow but destructive effect . The Pompée , at which ship alone it directed its fire had forty ... batteries supporting the Danish vessels at about ninety guns . 2d . Of four sail of the line , mounting ...
Pàgina 155
... battery was behind the Danish line , which consequently masked it , and also the shore batteries , from a view of the English line . Under such circumstances it is not conceivable that the batteries could be used with effect ; and the ...
... battery was behind the Danish line , which consequently masked it , and also the shore batteries , from a view of the English line . Under such circumstances it is not conceivable that the batteries could be used with effect ; and the ...
Pàgina 156
... batteries were unmasked and began to act the battle was closed , by Nelson opening a parley . 4th . That , consequently , it was in no sense a contest between ships and batteries , or a triumph of ships over batteries , and affords no ...
... batteries were unmasked and began to act the battle was closed , by Nelson opening a parley . 4th . That , consequently , it was in no sense a contest between ships and batteries , or a triumph of ships over batteries , and affords no ...
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