Notes on Sea-Coast Defence: Consisting of Sea-Coast Fortification, The Fifteen-Inch Gun, And Casemate Embrasures

by Major J. G. Barnard

Overview

CONTENTS.

I. Sea-coast Fortification.

II. The Fifteen-inch Gun; an account of the same, with considerations as to ' the probable uses of guns of extraordinary calibres for sea-coast defence.

III. Casemate Embrasures; an account of the facts and principles which have governed the design of the "American Embrasure," and a review of Sir Howard Douglas's strictures on the same, in the 5th edition of his "Naval Gunnery".

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From the introductory.

The march of invention and improvement in all the machinery of war has been so rapid, of late years, as to make necessary frequent scrutiny of all existing "systems," whether of military organization or construction, lest they should be found no longer adapted to their purposes.

Indeed, it is more common by those who would be regarded as illuminated by the new lights of the age to lay the charge of "obsolete" against such systems than to scrutinize their validity.

The existing system of American "Sea-coast "Defence" has been always a chosen subject with such. To examine whether it is still a safe reliance for the nation, and whether it is capable of opposing to new and probable means of attack new and sufficient counteracting agencies, -to ascertain, in fact, whether it has in itself a faculty of adaptation to the changes of the times, without which nothing old can long survive, -is the object of these "Notes."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781663510297
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	05/31/2020
Pages:	112
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.27(d)

About the Author

J. G. Barnard (May 19, 1815 – May 14, 1882) was a career engineering officer in the U.S. Army, serving in the Mexican–American War, as the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy and as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He served as Chief Engineer of the Army of the Potomac, 1861 to 1862, Chief Engineer of the Department of Washington from 1861 to 1864, and as Chief Engineer of the armies in the field from 1864 to 1865. He also was a distinguished scientist, engineer, mathematician, historian and author.