Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 377
ween mortars. long. The diameter of the shell is 42 centimeters,which is about i6j/2 inches. It carries an enor-mous amount of high explosive, which is de-signed to go off after the shell has penetrated itstarget. The marvel of this howitzer was notthat it could fire so big a shell, but that so… … ((J) Internalional Film A GIANT GUN CONCEALED AMONG TREES BEHIND THE FRENCH LINES. liowitzers, and guns. What we usually mean bygun is a piece of long caliber which is designedto hurl its shell with a flat trajectory. But longago, it was found advantageous to throw a pro-jectile not at, but upon, a…
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