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The Daily Dispatch: October 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], Winter Campaigns. (search)
omplicated as that which they propose, was never carried any commander, not even by Napo It is more vast than the invasion of in 1812. It is more complicated than of France in 1814. It would re a superintending genius at least equal to of Napoleon--a man who had been ac to handle enormous bodies of troops Now, the Yankees have no such man. Old Scott never commanded ten thousand men in us life, until he undertook the conquest of the McClellan has the sort of talent required for fortifyin thing since the days of of Marcial who sent for Players from Paris. when he went into them. and made other preparations to pass the season comfortably.-- Frederick knocked that sort of sport in the head. He was almost as sad an innovator as Napoleon himself, and paid no respect to ancient military traditions. A strict disciplination, he by no means resembled Moliere's physician, who thought it better for a man to be killed according to rule than to be cured in collation of it. He did not s
The Daily Dispatch: October 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], Winter Campaigns. (search)
equired. The French Emperor who took the lead in the construction of iron clad ships, is also among the first to try this new method of proving their powers of endurance. The Union states that a steel gun is being made for this purpose, twenty feet long and four tons in weight. It is bound with iron hoops, and throws a conical projectile. --Being easily manœnvred, it can be fired with great rapidity, and produces no danger. A larger and more formidable gun is, however, being made for Louis Napoleon near Liverpool, in England. This gun. it is said, will throw an elongated shot of 560 pounds, and the trial of its power was fixed for the beginning of October. In England, Sir William Armstrong is engaged in the manufacture of a gun to carry a ball 300 pounds in weight.--The trials with these huge pieces of ordnance cannot fall to be looked for with great interest, as the largest shot hitherto used in battering iron targets is 126 pounds, at a minimum distance of 200 yards. Trait