Elements of Military Art And Science Or Course of Instruction in Strategy Fort
Elements of Military Art And Science Or Course of Instruction in Strategy Fort
Halleck, H. W. (Henry Wager), 1815-1872
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That, as soon as the Crown-batteries were un SEA-COAST DEFENCES. 181 masked and began to act, Nelson prepared to retreat, but, on account of the difficulty of doing so, he opened a par ley, threatening, with a cruelty unworthy of the most bar barous ages, that, unless the batteries ceased their fre upon his ships, he would burn all the floating defences with the Danish prisoners in his possession ; and that this armist: ce was concluded just in time to save his own ships from destruction. 8th. ...That, consequently, the battle of Copenhagen can not be regarded as a contest between ships and forts, or a triumph of ships over forts : that, so far as the guns on shore were engaged, they showed a vast superiority over those afloat a superiority known and confessed by the English themselves. Constantinople. The channel of the Dardanelles is about twelve leagues long, three miles wide at its en trance, and about three-quarters of a mile at its narrowest point. Its principal defences are the outer and inner cas tles of Europe and Asia, and the castles of Sestos and Abydos.
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