 An exposed wall may be breached with certainty at distances from 500 to 700 yards, even when elevated 100 feet above the breaching battery, and it is believed that in a case of extreme necessity, it would be justifiable, to attempt to batter down an exposed...  Madras artillery records - Page 90by Madras presidency, army - 1838Full view - About this book
 | Sir John Thomas Jones (bart.) - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1827 - 560 pages
...undertaken whilst any other point can be selected. NOTE 17. THE experience of these sieges shows that an exposed wall may be breached with certainty at...distances from 500 to 700 yards, even when elevated more than 100 feet above the breaching battery ; and it is believed, that in a case of extreme necessity,... | |
 | Sir John Thomas Jones (bart.) - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1827 - 556 pages
...undertaken whilst any other point can be selected. NOTE 17. THE experience of these sieges shows that an exposed wall may be breached with certainty at...distances from 500 to 700 yards, even when elevated more than 100 feet above the breaching battery; and it is believed, that in a case of extreme necessity,... | |
 | Quincy Adams Gillmore - Fort Pulaski (Ga.) - 1862 - 136 pages
...by this improved arm of the service '113. A standard military work furnishes the following extract: "An exposed wall may be breached with certainty at...the breaching battery; and it is believed that in case of extreme necessity, it would be justifiable to attempt to batter down an exposed wall from any... | |
 | Quincy Adams Gillmore - Fort Pulaski (Ga.) - 1862 - 132 pages
...by this improved arm of the service 113. A standard military work furnishes the following extract: "An exposed wall may be breached with certainty at distances from 500 to TOO yards, even when elevated 100 feet above the breaching battery; and it is believed that in case... | |
 | United States. War Department - Confederate States of America - 1882 - 992 pages
...furnishes the following extract: An exposed wall may be breached with certainty at distances from 600 to 700 yards, even when elevated 100 feet above the breaching battery; and it is believed that in case of extreme necessity it wonld be justifiable to attempt to batter down an exposed wall from any... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1882 - 1012 pages
...following extract: An exposed wall may bo breached with certainty at distances from 500 to 700 yards, eyen when elevated 100 feet above the breaching battery; and it is believed that in MM of extreme necessity it would bo justifiable to attempt to batter down an exposed wall from any... | |
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