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The Daily Dispatch: March 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], The torpedo. (search)
ankee gunboats upon our coast defences, have impressed others, as well as myself, with the necessity of some means of defence other than the erection of earth works, which have proven insufficient against the power of modern naval improvements. Before the introduction of rifled cannon, it was a settled point that wooden ships could not successfully oppose stone batteries or even earthworks. An instance is given during the wars of the French revolution, of an English squadron under Admiral Sir Sidney Smith, (I believe,) whilst making a demonstration on Toulon, having been forced to abandon the attack by the fire of a single 82 pounder from a martello tower, every shot from which told with damaging effect, whilst the lower presented so small a target that its defenders escaped unsc hed, and the English were forced to retire. This is one of the many instances wherein small things have successfully opposed and overcome great ones. The capture of Beaufort, S. C., Newbern, and other