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Ten shots properly placed should have razed it; twenty more should have blown its leveled remainder to powder and scattered the powder. Be the facts what they may with regard to this case of the fort of Manonvilla if that be its proper name I am prepared to speak with the assurance of an eyewitness concerning the effect of the German fire upon the defenses of Maubeuge.
A German staff officer, who professed to have been present, told me that at Manonvilla so he spelled the name a 42-centimeter gun was fired one hundred and forty-seven times from a distance of 14,000 meters at a fort measuring 600 meters in length by 400 meters in breadth a very small target, indeed, considering the range and that investigation after the capture of the fort showed not a single one of the one hundred and forty-seven shots had been an outright miss.
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