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1812 AD (search for this): article 1
Ships and batteries.
We gave some months ago a minute history of the conflicts between ships and batteries in the great wars of modern times, both in Europe and in our own country, from which it appeared that, in the great majority of cases, vessels of war were unable to compete with strong land fortifications.
In all the wars of England with the continental nations, and in the war of the American Revolution and 1812, there was scarcely one exception to this general rule.
That such does not seem to be the experience of the present war, is attributed by some to the introduction of steam, and the greater perfection in the mechanical agencies both of the ship and armament, and the more powerful and destructive character of the materials of war. This is an important subject in a country so assailable by sea as our own, which has no navy, and can only rely upon its shore defences to meet the numerous fleets of an enemy who has the whole navy and the whole mercantile marine, now arme