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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"Artillery"”.
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The Rockbridge Artillery, C. S. A.
"The Rockbridge Artillery, C. S. A." is a socio-military history of an artillery battery during the Civil War. Initially composed of men strictly from Rockbridge County, Va., the battery eventually drew its members from throughout the Confederacy. Taken largely from personal reminiscences, letters …
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Stapleton Crutchfield: Stonewall Jaackson's chief of artillery
… Thomas Jackson appointed Crutchfield to chief of artillery of his division. While Crutchfield had received training in artillery at the Institute l the instruction he received would not prepare him for the Civil War. New technology and the massive size of the armies had drastically changed the …
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The Boy Battery: A Socio-Military Study of the 2nd Missouri Light Artillery
… analysis of Confederate 2nd Missouri Light Artillery during the American Civil War. It examines the 2nd Missouri's genesis in the Missouri State Guard and its service in the Confederate Army, following the unit under three successive captains, Clark, King, and Farris. This study, the first …
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Marked by Valor: The “Lost” History of the 6th United States Colored Troops, Heavy Artillery
… The ‘Lost’ History of the 6 th U.S.C.T., Heavy Artillery,” argues that the camaraderie of having been a Black Union soldier solidified a sub-culture of Black veterans and their families in Natchez, Mississippi, that cohered throughout the Reconstruction period using the tools and the …
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Lone Star under the Rising Sun: Texas's "Lost Battalion," 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery Regiment, During World War II
In March 1942, the 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery Regiment, 36th Division, surrendered to the Japanese Imperial Army on Java in the Dutch East Indies. Shortly after the surrender, the men of the 2nd Battalion were joined as prisoners-of-war by the sailors and Marines who survived the sinking …
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"The War Comes First": Lt. Col. Francis Carroll Grevemberg and the Development of a World War II Antiaircraft Artillery Officer
… Grevemberg's cavalry regiment into a coastal artillery battalion with antiaircraft capability. During World War II, Grevemberg saw continuous action in the North Africa, Italy and Southern France. He regularly wrote letters from battlefields to his wife Dorothy. These letters provide a …
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In-flight estimation of environmental and aerodynamic modeling errors for a GPS-INS guided artillery shell in a GPS-jamming environment
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1998.
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Science, warfare and society in the Renaissance, with particular reference to fortification theory
… The idea of the irresistability of attacking artillery legitimized the program. Other disciplines of the renaissance: naval architecture, perspective, dialling, surveying, navigation and mapping, ballistics and general architecture, evidence a similar cluster of ideas. The preference of the …
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FEASIBILITY OF INDIRECT FIRE FOR COUNTERING SWARMS OF SMALL UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS
… novel solution by defining the parameters of an artillery shell with effects designed to disrupt SUAS operations. Such a shell would target the electromagnetic spectrum vulnerabilities of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) by utilizing expendable jammers delivered as a payload in a cargo-carrying …
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On the Art of Fortification: A New Visitor's Center to Revitalize Fort Washington Park
… the 18th and 19th centuries, the evolution of artillery has commanded the evolution of military architecture. Fortifications physically depict a representation of the history of engineering and architectural principles; including strategic site placement, materiality, construction methodology, …
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Brigadier General James Dearing, C.S.A
… the Confederate Army. He joined the Washington Artillery as second lieutenant and, in July, 1861, distinguished himself at the First Manassas. By April, 1862, he was a captain. With that rank, he fought in the Peninsula campaigns at the Second Manassas. Early in 1863, as mayor, Dearing received …
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Optical Remote Sensing of Airborne Particulate Matter to Quantify Opacity and Mass Emissions
… in the field to measure dust emissions from artillery back blast and tracked vehicle movement in desert areas. Dust plumes were also characterized by developing contour maps that describe the plumes' horizontal and vertical dimensions, light transmittance, and temporal variability of size …
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The occupation of Groningen, Netherland, September 1944-April 1945 and the liberation of the city of Groningen by the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division, April 13-16, 1945
… avoid the use of air power or medium and heavy artillery and to restrict the field artillery to identifiable targets thereby placing an extraordinary burden on the Canadian troops. This thesis will discuss the four-day battle that followed in the light of the ultimate sacrifice that were made by …
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Communities rule : intra-service politics in the United States Army
… infantry ("heavy") community, an artillery community, an aviation community and a light infantry community. The oligarchy itself has a multi-tiered structure, one where the light infantry community has the least power and influence, while the heavy and artillery communities have …
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France— Military Causes of Collapse in The West, 1940
… tenacity of the Marne and of Verdun, whose artillery was considered the finest in Europe, and whose infantry had earned the feared title La Furia Francese, could suddenly disintegrate in the field.
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Aspects of Roman siegecraft
… timber-built design. Separate analyses of Roman artillery and siege-machinery round off the work, exposing several persistent fallacies concerning the operation and siting of stone-projecting catapults, and discussing the function of the different siege machines. Finally, amongst other myths, the …
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Andrew Johnson and the Dominican Republic
… very high mountains" which provides excellent artillery emplacements for harbor defense.
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The Last German Victory: Combat Doctrine and Tactical Performance in Operation Market Garden, September 1944
… set-piece battle planning and the maximal use of artillery and aerial firepower, proved itself ineffective in adapting to the confused and fast moving situation that their own surprise offensive created, ensuring that they were unable to achieve their objectives.
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The influence of the Boer War (1899 - 1902) on the tactical development of the Regular British Army 1902 - 1914
… became the tactical cornerstones for infantry, artillery and cavalry throughout the pre-First World War period and shaped the performance of the B.E.F. during the early battles of 1914. The experience of combat against well armed opposition in the Boer War prompted the British Army to develop …
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