ight inches and weighing nine thousand fivehundred pounds. Moreover, Brookes heavy casting wasreinforced by wrought-iron bands shrunk on. The broad-side guns were of the same construction, but weighed ninethousand pounds, and were of four-inch caliber. Brookesguns ivere far and away the best then… … Courtesy of Scientific American.View of a typical coast defense mortar battery, with position finder in a masked positionon an adjoining elevation. The battery is in a depression, or behind some embankmententirely out of sight of the ocean, so that its operators can not see, neither can it be…
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