Minutes of proceedings of the Royal Artillery Institution (1858)
Great Britain. Army. Royal Artillery Institution · Woolwich, Eng., : The Institution · leaf 416
MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS 0£ the shot and smothered the shell."1 If, in the third place, the enemy occupies hard ground, solid shot and blind shell will break up on the first graze, or rebound to such heights as to render their ricochet of no value. Fourthly, if the inclination of the height on which… … enemy can form in perfect security for an attack on the guns, at the base of the height G. This happened to the Russian artillery at Kunersdorf, 1759, 2 and, by an accident that could not have been fore¬ seen, to our own guns at Waterloo. “ The enemy rushed down the hill " (having been driven back…
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