Excerpt from Rifled Field Pieces: A Short Compilation of What Is Known of the New Field Artillery of Europe
As great changes have been made in the field artillery of Europe within the last three years, the details of which are not to be found in any of the military text-books, it was thought that it might be useful to collect and publish such of them as can be most readily ascertained.
The following pages were accordingly prepared for the purpose of giving an outline of systems upon which we must to some extent model our own, and which have been themselves modelled upon the results of elaborate practical investigations in schools of artillery, and of instructive, although brief, experiences in actual warfare.
As far as practicable I have given my authorities for the various statements made and where I have been compelled to draw inferences in default of positive information. I have intimated as much, leaving it for the reader to make a more complete investigation for himself.
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