The Attack of Fortresses in the FutureRoyal Engineer Institute at the Chiswick Press, 1877 - 102 páginas |
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Página 21 - ... guns, as well as a proportion of the artillery from works not engaged, will be posted in siege batteries, between, or just in rear of the line of forts, and connected with them by trenches ; in rear of these trenches, fresh batteries can be made, into which to shift any guns that may be too hardly...