c principle being confined to guns of have been brought home to the British military au- ing in some instances to fully 14,000 yards. rifle caliber we now have 1, 3, 6 and 14-pounder auto- thorities by the conflict in South Africa, none has In the operations against the Boers as in other been… … a 119-pound shell were shipped to South Atrica at the 12-POUNDER ARMY FIELD GUN. 12-POUNDER NAVAL FIELD GUN. outbreak of the war. A weapon which was introduced to some extent in the operations in the Transvaal is for the infusion of a more liberal and more progressive matic fire:s, or Maxims, as…
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