Journal of the United States Artillery, Volume 8Artillery School Press, 1897 - Artillery |
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Page 239 - Goodall backed me ; I got him to write to the Admiral, but it would not do : we should have had such a day, as I believe the annals of England never produced.
Page 240 - Captains are to look to their particular line as their rallying point. But, in case signals can neither be seen or perfectly understood, no captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of an enemy.
Page 29 - The rotation of the plane of polarization for monochromatic light is in any given substance proportional to the difference in magnetic potential between the points of entrance and emergence of the ray...
Page 239 - It certainly was so," replied Jervis, " and if ever you commit such a breach of your orders, I will forgive you also." Success covers many faults, yet it is difficult to believe that had Nelson been overwhelmed, the soundness of his judgment and his resolution would not equally have had the applause of a man, who had just fought twenty-seven ships with fifteen, because "a victory...
Page 190 - ... General of the State of Rhode Island and his military staff, the Newport Ancient Artillery, the Newport Guards, and a large concourse of patriotic citizens. The gateway leading to the battery not having been completed, Major Tousard had constructed a temporary arch decked with wreaths of evergreen and over its keystone was a tablet inscribed: 'FORT ADAMS The Rock on which the Storm will Beat'.
Page 30 - The medium used in this receiver is liquid carbon bisulphide contained in a glass tube with plane glass ends. There are many other substances which will answer the purpose, some better than others. This was selected because it is very clear and colorless, and possesses the necessary rotatory property to a considerable extent.
Page 59 - ... Island. Here he continued unmolested by the neighbouring enemy, from the beginning of July, till the latter end of autumn, when he retired to take up his winter quarters in huts which he had caused to be constructed at Middlebrook in Jersey. According to the prognostic of the British ministry, the Count d'Estaing, with a fleet of twelve ships of the line and three frigates, arrived off the mouth 'of the Delaware in the month of July ; but found to his mortification, that eleven days before that...
Page 30 - Just perpendicular to each other, the prisms are said to be " crossed," and an observer looking through the analyzer finds the light totally extinguished as though a shutter Interrupted the beam. By turning the analyzer ever so little from the crossed position, light passes through It, and its Intensity Increases until the planes of the prisms are parallel when it again diminishes; and If one of the prisms Is rotated, there will be darkness twice every revolution. In order to accomplish the same...
Page 353 - Britain, from which they emerged with some glory and some sense of defeat, but, after all, w1th the tremendous and permanent gain of absolute commercial independence. In the second place, their purchase of Louisiana, though understood by only a few at the moment, revolutionized their system both inside and outside.
Page 353 - That momentous step destroyed the literal interpretation of the constitution, hitherto enslaving a congeries of jarring little commonwealths in the bondage of verbalism, because, though manifestly beneficent and necessary, it could be justified before the law only by an appeal to the spirit and not to the letter. Thenceforward Americans have steadily been enlarging their constitutional law by interpretation, and the apparent timidity of amendment which they display is simply due to the absence of...