Instruction for Heavy Artillery Prepared by a Board of Officers for the Use of the Army of the United States Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Instruction for Heavy Artillery: Prepared by a Board of Officers for the Use of the Army of the United StatesThe right of a piece, when in battery, is the right of the cannoneer when facing to the object to be fired at; the front is the direction toward which the muz zle points.The term battery is applied to one or more pieces, or to the places where the pieces are fired.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.