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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 52 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 20 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 14 0 Browse Search
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.) 12 0 Browse Search
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1 10 0 Browse Search
Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing) 8 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 6 0 Browse Search
Mrs. John A. Logan, Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife: An Autobiography 6 0 Browse Search
G. S. Hillard, Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-General , U. S. Army 6 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10 6 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: December 29, 1860., [Electronic resource], Republican "Invincible" and the inauguration of Lincoln. (search)
ty-six wounded. This is the uniform history, almost without exception, of contests between ships and forts. In a late article in Blackwood's Magazine on the subject of "Iron-clad Ships," it is stated that every assault of British squadrons upon Russian forts in the Crimean wars was successfully repulsed, and this notwithstanding the weight of metal was in favor of the ships. In one case, a British steam-frigate, carrying more than thirty heavy guns, was knocked to pieces and forced to surrender by a trumpery Russian battery of only four guns, with a furnace for heating shot. The French did not even attempt to employ their ships against the Russian forts, but actually built earthworks on the shore to protect the ships. In our own wars with England, repeated instances of a similar kind have occurred. At Stonington, Connecticut, in the late war, a single cannon drove off a British squadron. Such facts as these have led the Emperor of the French to introduce "iron sheathing" for ve