Decisive Battles Since Waterloo the Most Important Military Events From 1815 T
Decisive Battles Since Waterloo the Most Important Military Events From 1815 T
Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896
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Commenting upon the news of that event, the London Times said : " Whereas we had available for immediate purposes one hundred and forty-nine first-class war ships, we have now two, these two being the Warrior and her sister Ironside. There is not now a ship in the English navy, apart from these two, that it would not be madness to trust to an engagement with that little Monitor. '' Eng- land and all other maritime powers immediately proceeded to reconstruct their navies, and the old-fashiond th...ree and four-decker line-of-battle ships were condemned as useless. . Not only in ships, but in their armament, there was rapid MONITOR AND MERRIMAC. 229 progress, and so great has been the advance in marine artillery that the Monitors of 1862, and the subsequent years of the American war, would be unable to resist the shot from the guns of iSSo-'S/. The most recent war steamers of England, France, Russia, and Italy are claimed to be as great an improvement upon the American Moni- tors as were those vessels upon their wooden predecessors.
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