The Navy And the Nation; Or, Naval Warfare And Imperial Defence
The Navy And the Nation; Or, Naval Warfare And Imperial Defence
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X One vessel was sunk, however, and another much injured by drifting boats prepared with explosives and incautiously taken along- side by the Peruvians.
286 THE NAVY AND THE NATION.
a month making preparations for hostilities. The position was twenty-five miles from the sea, and there were no defences on shore except " two old stone forts and a field battery."* Coming down the river after the bombardment of September 23, Admiral Courbet seems to have feared that mines had been laid behind him i...n the Kimpai Pass — "from various sources I had reason to fear the presence of torpedoes." Accordingly, on "the nights of the 28th and 29th our boats dragged the channel, finding nothing." "The new buoys seemed to be fishermen's, and the drag- ging gave no cause to suspect torpedoes." The "moral effect " of the supposed existence of submarine mines was, therefore, limited in this case. Two nights of work were entailed on some of the boats of the French squadron.
At Tamsui, Admiral Lespes reported that the river was "obstructed by four large junks loaded with stones and sunk.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
X One vessel was sunk, however, and another much injured by drifting boats prepared with explosives and incautiously taken along- side by the Peruvians.
286 THE NAVY AND THE NATION.
a month making preparations for hostilities. The position was twenty-five miles from the sea, and there were no defences on shore except " two old stone forts and a field battery."* Coming down the river after the bombardment of September 23, Admiral Courbet seems to have feared that mines had been laid behind him i...n the Kimpai Pass — "from various sources I had reason to fear the presence of torpedoes." Accordingly, on "the nights of the 28th and 29th our boats dragged the channel, finding nothing." "The new buoys seemed to be fishermen's, and the drag- ging gave no cause to suspect torpedoes." The "moral effect " of the supposed existence of submarine mines was, therefore, limited in this case. Two nights of work were entailed on some of the boats of the French squadron.
At Tamsui, Admiral Lespes reported that the river was "obstructed by four large junks loaded with stones and sunk.
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