Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 451
rk, hit the man in the breastand passed through his body, killing him instantly. Now let us pass at once over two thousandyears, and consider the wonderful artillery of mod-ern times. So great and marvelous are the powers and theeffects of gunpowder and the huge cannon ofto-day, that it seems hard… … erick the Great of Prussia could load and fire sixtimes a minute. As there are one thousand men ina regiment, it will be seen that six of these guns,requiring only five men each — thirty, all told —to operate them, could do as much firing as onethousand men, one hundred years ago. Indeed,the amount…
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