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Updated: May 12, 2025
After about a fortnight of trial, and one Event in the neighborhood which shall be mentioned, this of Mining and Counter-mining though the External Sap went restlessly forward too, and the cannonading was incessant on both sides came to be regarded more and more as the real method, and for six or seven weeks longer was persisted in, with wonderful tenacity of attempt and resistance.
Consequently, it was left to the Company Commander to blow up the mine, and with it some of the German trench, in case of emergency, and it was left to the infantry to supply listeners down the shaft to listen for counter-mining.
Maximilian, however, remained impecunious and inefficient; Charles VIII. was giving his entire attention to his Italian projects; the whole affair of Perkin Warbeck was carried on mainly below the surface on both sides, by a process of mining and counter-mining.
"Every iron-clad is provided with a crinoline, which is a powerful iron network, hung all round the ship at some distance from her, like pardon me a lady's crinoline, and is intended to intercept any torpedo that may be discharged against her." Attention was called, at this point, to the counter-mining experiments.
In addition to this it contained a mine shaft running towards the enemy's lines, some 40 yards away, and at this the Boche constantly threw his "Sausages," small trench mortars made of lengths of stove piping stopped at the ends. It was also suspected that he was counter-mining.
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