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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 867

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cover as wide a range as pos-sible. It is played upon the enemy as you wouldplay the hose upon the lawn, scattering a showerof lead among the advancing hosts. MACHINE-GUN FORTS It used to be thought that the Belgian forts ofarmored steel and concrete, almost completelyburied in the ground, would… … Courtesy of Scientific American. SOME OF THE GERMAN MACHINE-GUN FORTS ARE VERY ELABORATE. dieted that the day of the fort was over. But themachine-gun has developed a new type of war-fare. Instead of great forts mounting huge guns,we now have little machine-gun forts, and theyare far more…

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