Problems in Curved and Indirect Fire (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Problems in Curved and Indirect Fire The importance of indirect fire in siege operations has in creased greatly during the last few years by the introduction of ri¿ed guns, and especially of ri¿ed howitzers and mortars, and also by the simultaneous improvement of ballistic formulas and tables whereby the art of gunnery has been reduced to an exact science. It is no longer considered practicable or desirable to construct breaching batteries as formerly on the glacis in order to batter down the scarp by direct fire, but the breach must now be effected by indirect fire from a distance of several hundred yards, as at the siege of Strassburg, during the franco-german war of 1870-71, where the breach of the main rampart was made by indirect fire, the masonry not being visible from the demo lition batteries located in the second parallel. Curved fire is also considered by our best military writers as equaly important in operations against troops protected by the earthen parapets (breast works) inaugurated in our civil war. These were usualy thrown up in a single night and rendered the defenders comparatively safe against the direct fire of the enemy, whether of muskets or of field guns. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.