From The Earth To The Moon
From The Earth To The Moon
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    İÇİNDE KARGODA
  • Basım Yılı
  • Baskı
    1
  • Sayfa Sayısı
    334
  • Kağıt Türü
    Kitap Kağıdı
  • Ebat
    13,5 x 21
  • Dil
    İngilizce
  • Cilt Durumu
    Karton Kapak
  • ISBN-10
    6051809502
'...During the War of the Rebellion, a new and influential club was established in the city of Baltimore in the State of Maryland. It is well known with what energy the taste for military matters became developed among that nation of ship-owners, shopkeepers, and mechanics. Simple tradesmen jumped their counters to become extemporized captains, colonels, and generals, without having ever passed the School of Instruction at West Point; nevertheless; they quickly rivaled their compeers of the old continent, and, like them, carried off victories by dint of lavish expenditure in ammunition, money, and men. But the point in which the Americans singularly distanced the Europeans was in the science of gunnery. Not, indeed, that their weapons retained a higher degree of perfection than theirs, but that they exhibited unheard-of dimensions, and consequently attained hitherto unheard-of ranges. In point of grazing, plunging, oblique, or enfilading, or point-blank firing, the English, French, and Prussians have nothing to learn; but their cannon, howitzers, and mortars are mere pocket-pistols compared with the formidable engines of the American artillery...
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