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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1909. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... THE FIFTH PERIOD HIS last period extends from the early days of gunpowder to the present time, and owes X its changed methods of attack and defence simply to the increased power and range of firearms. The general principles are not entirely different, but the application of them has given rise to some remarkable changes. When siege-guns were gradually so improved as to throw their heavy projectiles from one, two, three, and up to twenty miles, and when these projectiles came to carry explosive charges powerful enough to blow masonry to atoms, it became necessary at first to make walls as strong as possible, and finally even to keep them out of sight. Nothing except the solid earth itself, or the thickest toughened steel plates, can for an instant resist fire so effective. Until recently it was believed also that the use of magazine rifles would make it impossible for an army to charge across an open ground against a line of defence held even by a very small body of men. But such charges, in spite of fearful losses, have, as we shall see, been made, and made successfully. Fortified places, strengthened by every modern device and well defended, have been taken, and it seems that we have not yet reached the point where either attack or defence can be said to be too strong for the science and courage of an enemy. In order to choose a siege that shall, while showing the effect of gun-fire, yet be new in its incidents, we shall next tell of the defence of the great fortress of Gibraltar in the year 1783. This is an interesting siege, and yet is little else than a grand fight of cannon afloat against cannon ashore. Full preparation was made on both sides, and it is purely a question of holding or losing a fortress. There are in these years so many great sieges from whi...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781150754920
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 58
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150754923
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 122 gr


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