Author: Foxhall Alexander ParkerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Howitzers
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
The Naval Howitzer Ashore
Author: Foxhall Alexander ParkerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Howitzers
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
The Naval Howitzer Ashore
Author: Foxhall Alexander ParkerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Howitzers
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
The Naval Howitzer Afloat
Author: Foxhall Alexander PARKERPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Armed Bluejackets Ashore
Author: Nelson H. LawryPublisher: Fonthill Media
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Among other major navies, that of the United States put armed naval landing parties ashore during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Although done primarily to protect American interests, they also safeguarded international communities against the "savage hordes" of "uncivilized" nations. Specially designed light field guns carried aboard gunboats and larger warships sometimes supported the bluejackets and marines, customarily when larger parties more likely to face sharp actions went ashore. Most American naval landings of the nineteenth century took place in Africa, Asia, and Central and South America, whereas the following century saw landings against larger and otherwise civilized nations such as Mexico and Russia. The last of these landings were made in conjunction with the Allied assaults on North Africa in November 1942. The first purpose-built landing guns, the bronze Dahlgren muzzleloading smoothbore howitzers, saw extensive deployment during the Civil War, and postwar in Korea. The US Navy's very first steel breechloading guns were landing pieces. Five different marks of 3-inch breechloading guns and several guns of other calibers followed in successive decades, serving for varying periods. The history and characteristics of these landing guns are chronicled.
Naval Text-book, and Dictionary
Author: Benjamin J. TottenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Naval art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Gunnery Instructions, simplified for the Volunteer Officers of the U.S. Navy, etc
Author: Edward BarrettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gunnery
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
A Brief History of the 14th Marines
Author: Ronald J. BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
A Course of Instruction in the Elements of the Art and Science of War
Author: Junius Brutus WheelerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
The Catalogue of the Public Library of Victoria: P to Z and addenda
Author: Public Library of VictoriaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
The CSS Arkansas
Author: Myron J. Smith, Jr.Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786484853
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
While the Monitor and Merrimack are the most famous of the Civil War ironclads, the Confederacy had another ship in its flotilla that carried high hopes and a metal hull. The makeshift CSS Arkansas, completed by Lt. Isaac Newton Brown and manned by a mixed crew of volunteers, gave the South a surge of confidence when it launched in 1862. For 28 days of summer, the ship engaged in five battles with Union warships, falling victim in the end only to her own primitive engines. The saga of the CSS Arkansas represents the last significant Rebel naval activity in the war's Western theater.