This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 Excerpt: ... which we scorn to use. What would Nelson have said to this incendiary warfare?" Red-hot shot, too, a projectile ineendiaire which Napoleon denounced ('Memoires, ' torn, i.) as a dangerous, troublesome, and difficile weapon, so repugnant to the feelings of Frenchmen as to have been renounced, will again come into use, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 Excerpt: ... which we scorn to use. What would Nelson have said to this incendiary warfare?" Red-hot shot, too, a projectile ineendiaire which Napoleon denounced ('Memoires, ' torn, i.) as a dangerous, troublesome, and difficile weapon, so repugnant to the feelings of Frenchmen as to have been renounced, will again come into use, if not in ships, at least in coast batteries (witness the fate of the " Christian VIII." Danish ship-of-the-line, Art. 354), and, no doubt, shellequipped ships will, much more than others, invite a return to that practice. Notwithstanding the assurances contained in the 'Aide-Memoire, ' p. 438, that "Le tir a boulets rouges est aujourd'hui presque inusite," and Charpentier's observation (' Essai sur l'Artillerio Navale, ' p. 183), "que l'usage de faire rougir au feu les boulets des batteries de cote a beaucoup perdu de son ancienne faveur," several vessels of the combined fleets in the Black and Baltic seas were struck with red-hot shot. Two lodged in the "Vauban" at Odessa, which obliged her to retire out of action to have them extracted, which with the aid Translation by the lion. Capi. Plunket, from De la Graviere: --" Having witnessed the destruction of 'L'Alcide' and 'L'Orient, ' Nelson considered Vincendie as the greatest danger of a naval action. Before the battle of Trafalgar commenced, he ordered all the hammock-covers on the sides of the 'Victory' to be well watered, and to throw into the sea or remove everything that could serve to aliment fire. It was to this pre-occupation, above all, that the absence of musketry in the tops of the ' Victory' may be attributed. Nelson thought that a careless discharge, a fortuitous explosion, might set fire to the tops and rigging, and become the cause ...
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