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... arm is one for which both study and experience are particularly necessary . Our military establishment is so small that every corps in the army is mainly employed in active service of a general description , and all attention by the ...
... arm is one for which both study and experience are particularly necessary . Our military establishment is so small that every corps in the army is mainly employed in active service of a general description , and all attention by the ...
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... be seen that the expenditure of over three hundred and seventy thousand dollars was imposed upon the War Department for these objects which could not be foreseen ORDNANCE , ARMS AND EQUIPMENTS . I have ordered the SECRETARY OF WAR . 219.
... be seen that the expenditure of over three hundred and seventy thousand dollars was imposed upon the War Department for these objects which could not be foreseen ORDNANCE , ARMS AND EQUIPMENTS . I have ordered the SECRETARY OF WAR . 219.
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... arms is , to say the least , a measure of very doubtful economy , and may prove in the end to be both dangerous and expensive . A foreign war would create an immediate demand for an immense number of arms , probably enough , nearly , to ...
... arms is , to say the least , a measure of very doubtful economy , and may prove in the end to be both dangerous and expensive . A foreign war would create an immediate demand for an immense number of arms , probably enough , nearly , to ...
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... arms and equipments beyond their regular quotas . BREECH - LOADING ARMS . Under the appropriations heretofore made by Congress to encourage experiments in breech - loading arms very important results have been arrived at . The ingenuity ...
... arms and equipments beyond their regular quotas . BREECH - LOADING ARMS . Under the appropriations heretofore made by Congress to encourage experiments in breech - loading arms very important results have been arrived at . The ingenuity ...
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... arms or suitable for defense . The next movement was to seize the principal men of the place , with whom their long residence near there had made them acquainted , and con- fine them securely under their own control . These arrests were ...
... arms or suitable for defense . The next movement was to seize the principal men of the place , with whom their long residence near there had made them acquainted , and con- fine them securely under their own control . These arrests were ...
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