Identifier: battlesofninetee06forb (find matches)
Title: Battles of the nineteenth century
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Forbes, Archibald, 1838-1900 Atteridge, A. Hilliard (Andrew Hilliard)
Subjects: Battles Military history, Modern
Publisher: London New York : Cassell and Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
, it should havebeen blasted into a mere rubbish heap. Butat the end of the long bombardment it was still
Text Appearing After Image:
102 THE P.OER WAR. standinj4, with d big hole in one side of it anda smaller opening in the other. Those whohave handkd lyddite say that sometimes not oneshell in lour explodes properly. Many of themmerely fizzle, pouring out smoke, but producingnothing like a heavy explosion. Even whendetonation is elTected, the damage done is ofteninteitsely local. It is true that men are killedby the mere shock without a wound, but theymust be close to the bursting shell. And evenfor those who are close to it its action seemserratic. Some are killed, some stunned, some■hardly affected at all. It has the same doubtfulcharacter as the old-fashioned gunpowder-ladenshells, which often burst so as to kill one man ina group and leave all his comrades uninjured. But Lord Methuen seems to have had no doubtabout the efficiency of his heavy artillery andlyddite shells when on the afternoon of Sunday,December loth (the same day that Gatacre failedat Stcrmberg), he began a heavy bombardmentof the Magersfonte

Note About Images