Papers on Subjects Connected with the Duties of the Corps of Royal EngineersThe Corps, 1872 - Civil engineering |
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appointed arches armour bolt armour plates army artillery attack bastion batteries battle of Inkermann bombardment breach broken Bursting charge caponiers casemates chateau Colonel Burgoyne command Corps Counter-batter covered Crimea defence Denison diameter ditches ditto duties earth edge embrasures enceinte feet fire flank foot of shot's formed French front gabions German guns head hole huts inches indent iron Issy killed and wounded left face Lieut Lieutenant Lord Raglan lower plate metres Meudon military Montrouge mortars Palliser shot parapets Paris pieces placed planking Point du Jour position powder PROJECTILE proper right Prussian rails railway rear redoubt ribs Rifled right face rivets roof round Royal Engineer screw thread shell shewn shot's tons side siege Sir John Burgoyne Sir William Denison skin Struck target terreplein thick timber tons on circum Tower traversed Vanves vertical Villejuif waggons wall washers wood bolts Woolwich