Journals of the Sieges of the Madras Army in the Years 1817 1818 And 1819 Wi
Journals of the Sieges of the Madras Army in the Years 1817 1818 And 1819 Wi
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AMMUNITION EXPENDED.
Eighteen-pound shot 34G2 Twelve-pound shot 2395 Ditto grape 21 Six-pound shot 500 Ditto grape 50 Ten-inch shells 98 Eight-inch ditto 1004 Five-and-a-half-inch ditto 233 Eight-inch carcasses G Gunpowder, lbs 35, 500 REFLECTIONS. If it were not for the Pettah, which weakens the East front so materially, Malligaum might be considered a perfect specimen of the strongest kind of Native Forts, so far as regards the size and disposition of the works, and also in re- ference to the... rockiness of the soil, on which it is placed.
The chief objection to the original project of attack is, that even if it had been possible to destroy the towers (if and z) by mining, as pro- posed, the intervention of the river between them and the trenches, must have proved an insuperable obstacle to that species of uninter- rupted and comparatively secure communica- 136 SIEGES OF THE MADRAS ARMY.
CHAP, tion, at all hours, which is desirable, if notindis- ^^* pensably necessary to a besieging army, in the 1818 ^^^"^ ^^ ^"^ obstinate and protracted resistance, in which every successive work is disputed inch by inch.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
AMMUNITION EXPENDED.
Eighteen-pound shot 34G2 Twelve-pound shot 2395 Ditto grape 21 Six-pound shot 500 Ditto grape 50 Ten-inch shells 98 Eight-inch ditto 1004 Five-and-a-half-inch ditto 233 Eight-inch carcasses G Gunpowder, lbs 35, 500 REFLECTIONS. If it were not for the Pettah, which weakens the East front so materially, Malligaum might be considered a perfect specimen of the strongest kind of Native Forts, so far as regards the size and disposition of the works, and also in re- ference to the... rockiness of the soil, on which it is placed.
The chief objection to the original project of attack is, that even if it had been possible to destroy the towers (if and z) by mining, as pro- posed, the intervention of the river between them and the trenches, must have proved an insuperable obstacle to that species of uninter- rupted and comparatively secure communica- 136 SIEGES OF THE MADRAS ARMY.
CHAP, tion, at all hours, which is desirable, if notindis- ^^* pensably necessary to a besieging army, in the 1818 ^^^"^ ^^ ^"^ obstinate and protracted resistance, in which every successive work is disputed inch by inch.
What to read after Journals of the Sieges of the Madras Army in the Years 1817 1818 And 1819 Wi?
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