Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 412
e batteries is an extensive used, as it probably would be, only an indistin-guishable vapor would rise from the pits to be-tray the location of the battery. The enemywould hear a report, and, from he knew notwhere, the shells would rain down and piercethe decks. If but three or four guns were… … ON BOARD A BATTLESHIP GOING INTO ACTION AGAINST A FORTIFIED HARBOR. and expensive undertaking. The batteries, whencompleted, are capable of dropping upon avessel some five or six miles away a showerof several hundred pounds of iron or steel andexplosives. The layout of a battery is such that all…
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