The Coast Artillery Journal, Volume 58Coast Artillery Training Center, 1923 - Artillery |
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adjustment aircraft airplane altitude ammunition anti-aircraft defense antiaircraft artillery armament Army attack azimuth circle barrage balloons base line battalion battery commander Btry caliber camp Captain Chief of Coast Coast Artillery Board Coast Artillery Corps COAST ARTILLERY JOURNAL coast defense course D day Dardanelles deflection deviation device direction Division drill duty effect elevation emplacement enemy equipment field of fire fire control force Fort Eustis Fort Monroe front fuse Gallipoli gunners Howitzer Infantry land Lord Kitchener machine guns matériel Maubeuge method military mortars mount moving target naval necessary observation obtained officers operation organization plane platen platoon plotting board plotting room position practice problem projectile radio range correction rear regiment reported Reserve rotation scale searchlights secondary arm shot sight slide rule station tactical telephone tion tractor artillery Training Regulations trench warfare troops units yards
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Page 190 - No alien land in all the world has any deep, strong charm for me but that one, no other land could so longingly and so beseechingly haunt me, sleeping and waking, through half a lifetime, as that one has done. Other things leave me, but it abides; other things change, but it remains the same. For me its balmy airs are always blowing, its summer seas flashing in the sun, the pulsing of its...
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Page 102 - Upon the hill, they have a large square house, with a flat roof, made of thick sawn planks, stayed with oak beams, upon the top of which they have six cannons, which shoot iron balls of four and five pounds, and command the surrounding country. The lower part they use for their church, where they preach on Sundays and the usual holidays.
Page 321 - That the state of war between the United States and the Imperial German Government which has thus been thrust upon the United States is hereby formally declared...
Page 503 - Having entered on the project of forcing the Straits there can be no idea of abandoning the scheme. It will require time, patience, and methodical plans of co-operation between the naval and military commanders. The essential point is to avoid a check, which will jeopardise our chances of strategical and political success.
Page 529 - The Council established at Plymouth in the County of Devon, for the Planting, ruling, ordering and Governing of New England in America" and to them and their Successors grants all the lands, &c., Viz.
Page 494 - We -are of opinion that Lord Kitchener did not sufficiently avail himself of the services of his General Staff, with the result that more work was undertaken by him than was possible for one man to do, and confusion and want of efficiency resulted.
Page 534 - Wednesday, the 14th, about 12 o'clock, news was brought to me that a Drum was beating about the town to collect the Populace together ijj order to go and take away the Gunpowder and dismantle the Fort. I immediately sent the Chief Justice of the Province to warn them from engaging in such an attempt. He went to them, where they were collected in the centre of the town, near the townhouse, explained to them the nature of the offence they proposed to commit, told them it was not short of Rebellion,...
Page 389 - Provisions could be taken from the country; but all the ammunition that can be carried on the person is soon exhausted when there is much fighting. I directed, therefore, immediately on landing that all the vehicles and draft animals, whether horses, mules, or oxen, in the vicinity should be collected and loaded to their capacity with ammunition.
Page 322 - An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military establishment of the United States", approved May 18, 1917, or any.