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There was little or no straggling, and being strong, lusty young fellows, and lightly equipped they carried only needle-guns, ammunition, a very small knapsack, a water-bottle, and a haversack they strode by with an elastic step, covering at least three miles an hour.
On the very day of his death an order signed by him was received in Europe, not for rifled cannon, not for needle-guns, but for two thousand nightingales, which he desired to have purchased in the Tyrol to add to the attractions of his empire. The visit paid by the Emperor Napoleon and the Empress Eugénie to Queen Victoria at Windsor in 1856 was returned in 1857.
There was little or no straggling, and being strong, lusty young fellows, and lightly equipped they carried only needle-guns, ammunition, a very small knapsack, a water-bottle, and a haversack they strode by with an elastic step, covering at least three miles an hour.
There was little or no straggling, and being strong, lusty young fellows, and lightly equipped they carried only needle-guns, ammunition, a very small knapsack, a water-bottle, and a haversack they strode by with an elastic step, covering at least three miles an hour.
The Prussians being armed with needle-guns, were enabled to get the double advantage of rapid firing by loading in a chamber at the breech of the piece, and the equally great advantage of a long range and most deadly missile; for in the cartridge of this gun the needle runs through the charge, firing it first at the front of the chamber, thus securing the whole force of the explosive, which burns backward in the enclosed space and expends itself entirely on the projectile.
Rassam told him that the needle-guns, by their rapid fire, had gained the victory for the Prussians; that on peace being made the Emperor of Austria was obliged to pay a large sum of money; that a part of his territory had been annexed by the conqueror, and all his allies had lost their kingdoms.
Assailed on both flanks and pressed in the centre, the Austrians first began to slacken fire, then to waver, then to give way under the terrific concentrated fire of the needle-guns, then to retreat into ignominious flight. The contending forces were about equal; but science and the needle-gun won the day, and changed the whole aspect of modern warfare.
Battle-field is a good word. The fire has been thick and fast, needle-guns sharp needles and machine-guns Gatling guns and rattling but no smokeless powder. The cloud of smoke of a beautiful scholarly gray tinge has quite filled the air. Men have been swinging away from a man, the Man to a book.
A ululating yell, so fierce in its exultation that the cavalry horses pulled back upon their bridles in a frenzy of fear, broke the silence. Then the booming of the long Sharp's fifties on the summit mingled with the rattle of Springfields and needle-guns on the hill's flank.
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