Reports of Committees: 16th Congress, 1st Session - 49th Congress, 1st Session, Volum 4 |
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... object were in view than the security of the town and harbor . Considered , however , as a naval station and a place ... objects . Mobile bay.t - As the subject of the fortification of Mobile bay has been treated at some length in the ...
... object were in view than the security of the town and harbor . Considered , however , as a naval station and a place ... objects . Mobile bay.t - As the subject of the fortification of Mobile bay has been treated at some length in the ...
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... objects connected with internal improve- ments , which are stated in the table , by employing persons to superintend the ... object . The organization proposed for the topographical engineers would probably take effect immediately by the ...
... objects connected with internal improve- ments , which are stated in the table , by employing persons to superintend the ... object . The organization proposed for the topographical engineers would probably take effect immediately by the ...
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... object to enter into the details of a naval establishment . That duty will be much more appropriately and ably performed by the proper department ; but as some of the views I shall present on the subject of our system of fortifications ...
... object to enter into the details of a naval establishment . That duty will be much more appropriately and ably performed by the proper department ; but as some of the views I shall present on the subject of our system of fortifications ...
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... object to be attained by a prompt movement and by vigorous exertions . Our experience , more than half a century ago , de- monstrated that an invading force could command little more than the position it actually occupied . The system ...
... object to be attained by a prompt movement and by vigorous exertions . Our experience , more than half a century ago , de- monstrated that an invading force could command little more than the position it actually occupied . The system ...
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... object of corresponding importance to be expected . We have works constructed which it would require armies to reduce . Have we any reason to anticipate that they will be assailed by a force proportioned to their magnitude ? I have ...
... object of corresponding importance to be expected . We have works constructed which it would require armies to reduce . Have we any reason to anticipate that they will be assailed by a force proportioned to their magnitude ? I have ...
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