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Baron de Jomini, Summary of the Art of War, or a New Analytical Compend of the Principle Combinations of Strategy, of Grand Tactics and of Military Policy. (ed. Major O. F. Winship , Assistant Adjutant General , U. S. A., Lieut. E. E. McLean , 1st Infantry, U. S. A.) 4 0 Browse Search
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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 2 0 Browse Search
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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—the Third winter. (search)
e on their inner line, were henceforth blockaded on the sea side. But, seeing their forts powerless to keep the hostile vessels away from the passes to Charleston, they wished to resort to new and bold ways to destroy them and break the chain that isolated their city from the rest of the world. In all times man, resolved to sacrifice his life, has been enabled to overcome the most redoubtable and bestprotected adversaries. In antiquity one Maccabaeus drew down on himself the elephant of Antiochus; in our day torpedo-boats have sunk armored vessels. The harbor of Charleston was witness to an exploit of this kind. Its date obliges us to reserve the narration of it, but it was preceded by attempts about which we must say a few words in finishing the historical account of the siege of Charleston during the year 1863. We have already often spoken of the defensive torpedoes—that is to say, of apparatus placed at given points, and the explosion of which, produced either by a shock or b