Minutes of proceedings of the Royal Artillery Institution (1858)
Great Britain. Army. Royal Artillery Institution · Woolwich, Eng., : The Institution · leaf 80
. Should this give us then a formation such as is shown in Fig. 3, the altered profiles will admit of the advantageous employment of curved breaching and demolition fire from greater distances. This is to be preferred to direct breaching, because we can better secure ourselves against the splinters… … Direct breaching fire from the crowning of the covered way is, more¬ over, impracticable when, owing to the narrowness of the ditches and the masonry counterscarp, the escarp cannot be taken deep enough. 4. Choice of the Point of Impact in Curved Breaching Fire. From the experience gained at Julich…
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