The Evolution of Marine Artillery: A History of Versatility and Relevance This is a focused history on the evolution of Marine field artillery. Specifically focusing on how the Marine Corps came to possess an artillery capability and how the mission of the Marine artillery evolved over the years ...
The second volume of the Field Artillery School history presents an outline of the training efforts and development of the school during World War II. It relates not only the training of officers, but also the training of enlisted men. Chapter three tells the history of the Field Artillery Off...
Li Dazhao (1889-1927) is considered a pioneer in China’s communist movement, a great Marxist and revolutionary, and one of the main founders of the CPC. He devoted his lifetime to the cause of communism. To unite the nation at a time of cr...
artillery, in military science, crew-served big guns, howitzers, or mortars having a calibre greater than that of small arms, or infantry weapons. Rocket launchers are also commonly categorized as artillery, since rockets perform much the same function as artillery projectiles, but the term artil...
(musketeers), and thetopchīs (artillerymen). With his new army, ʿAbbās defeated the Turks in 1603, forcing them to relinquish all the territory they had seized, and captured Baghdad. He also expelled (1602, 1622) the Portuguese traders who had seized the island ofHormuzin thePersian ...
This article traces the development of military technology by historical period, from prehistory to the 18th century. For a discussion of modern military technology,seesmall arm,artillery,rocket and missile system,nuclear weapon,chemical warfare,biological warfare,fortification,tank,naval ship,submarine,mil...
techniques were copied by succeeding generations of military engineers. The system perfected by him did not change until the second half of the 19th century, when breech-loading artillery and the use of high-explosive shells called for drastic alterations in the design and construction of defenses...
they waved the U.S. flag and carried out a gun salute. On the 50th round of the 100-gun salute, an explosion occurred, causing the only death of the engagement. Pvt. Daniel Hough of the 1st U.S. Artilleryregimentwas the first of as many as 850,000 Americans who would perish before...
The siege lasted 11 months because the allies lacked heavy artillery to smash the defenses effectively, while all Russian… Read More Dalian In Dalian: Lüshun (Port Arthur) Russia, which was eager to acquire an ice-free port on the Pacific, occupied the Liaodong Peninsula in 1897 after the...
although the earliest known version of such rules is dated 1744. Sources suggest that cricket was limited to the southern counties of England during the early 18th century, but its popularity grew and eventually spread toLondon, notably to theArtillery Ground, Finsbury, which saw a famous match ...