Minutes of proceedings of the Royal Artillery Institution (1858)
Great Britain. Army. Royal Artillery Institution · Woolwich, Eng., : The Institution · leaf 55
e horizontal distance, either in front of, or behind the target, at which the shell may burst, when firing at a single target. We will now suppose targets of other dimensions, and representing different formations of troops are to be fired at. [First, line; our object should be now to burst the… … The next formation is column. In this case we endeavour to burst the shells about two or three feet above, and from fifteen to thirty yards short, according to the breadth of the column. If grand divisions are represented then fifty yards short. Figs. 16, 17, represent front and side views of…
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