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Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - During the War of the Rebellion, a new and influential club was established in the city of Baltimore in the State of Maryland. It is well known with what energy the taste for military matters became developed among that nation of ship-owners, shopkeepers, and mechanics. Simple tradesmen jumped their counters to become extemporized captains, colonels, and generals, without having ever passed the School of Instruction at West Point; nevertheless; they quickly rivaled their compeers of the old continent, and, like them, carried off victories by dint of lavish expenditure in ammunition, money, and men. But the point in which the Americans singularly distanced the Europeans was in the science of gunnery. Not, indeed, that their weapons retained a higher degree of perfection than theirs, but that they exhibited unheard-of dimensions, and consequently attained hitherto unheard-of ranges. In point of grazing, plunging, oblique, or enfilading, or point-blank firing, the English, French, and Prussians have nothing to learn; but their cannon, howitzers, and mortars are mere pocket-pistols compared with the formidable engines of the American artillery.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

• Full title: From the Earth to the Moon and Round the Moon
• Author: Jules Verne
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 420
• EAN: 9781421806433
• ISBN: 9781421806433
• ID: 08411132
• Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society
• Weight: 692 g
• Dimensions: 224 × 144 × 32 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. July 2005

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