The Relations of the United States And Spain: the Spanish-American War
The book The Relations of the United States And Spain: the Spanish-American War was written by author Chadwick, French Ensor, 1844-1919 Here you can read free online of The Relations of the United States And Spain: the Spanish-American War book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Relations of the United States And Spain: the Spanish-American War a good or bad book?
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At the north end of the Luneta drive, near the water, were four 8.26-inch muzzle-loading rifled howitzers, behind 30-foot earthworks, with wing traverses, with casements in each wing. These were mounted on gravity-return, muzzle-pivot carriages trained by tackles and handspikes; the projectiles were nose- fused common shell. These pieces were of an old type and could not give serious concern. Fifty yards north of this last was a third 9.45-inch breech- loading Trubia gun, built in 1885. A short... distance north of this was a battery of six breech-loading rifled guns behind 30- foot earthworks with wing traverses, separating the guns in pairs. Four of these had been converted in 1887 from bronze smooth-bores of eighteenth-century design, by cutting off the ' C. P. Admiral Montojo Before Opinion, and Before History, chapters III and IV. THE BATTLE OF MANILA 165 cascabel rifling and slotting the breech for a Krupp breech-block, thus making them into 5.5-inch breech-loading rifles; the other two were 5.9-inch breech-loading rifled bronze siege-guns made in Seville in 1893.
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