Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Fort Fisher” in chapter 1.38 of Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government:
...ge amount of powder in a ship, and having anchored off the fort, to explode the powder and so destroy the works and incapacitate the garrison as to enable a storming party to capture them.
How near Fort Fisher it was expected to anchor the ship I do not know, nor have I learned how far it was supposed the open atmosphere could be made to act as a projectile.
General Whiting, the brave and highly accompli...
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† | Fort Fisher (North Carolina, United States) | 2,309 | 18 | 179 | 0 | 0 user votes |
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