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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 431

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y drill with the three-inchnaval guns that our ships send ashore in troubledLatin-American ports or for the protection of aconsulate in the far East is the most popular ofall the drills that come when the recruit takes uphis gunnery and ordnance course. He is taughthow to take apart and assemble… … si;A-HAG IXSIIOCTION. shells and fuses and the smokeless powder usedby the Navy, and gun-sights and telescopes areexplained to him by expert gunners. When his mates have mastered the companyand battalion drills, they are marched out intothe rolling country-side and are formed for anattack on an…

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