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He rattled short sentences like a quick-firing gun, but he was plainly the sort of man who is either mad or right. The mass of the crowd was Nationalist, and already in threatening uproar; and a minority of equally angry Intellectuals, led by Armagnac and Brun, only made the majority more militant. "If this is a military secret," shouted Brun, "why do you yell about it in the street?"
They were constructed entirely of steel, and had three decks, the lower one having loophole shutters for infantry fire. On the upper deck, which was extended over the whole length of the boat, was a conning tower. In the after portion of the boat, and beneath the upper deck, were cabins for officers. Each boat carried a twelve-pounder quick-firing gun forward, a howitzer, and four Maxims.
Don Juan de Austria Small cruiser, completed in 1887, iron, 1,152 tons, 13 to 14 knots, and four 4.7-inch rifles in her main battery. Don Antonio de Ulloa Small cruiser, iron, 1,152 tons. Four 4.7-inch Hontoria guns; two 2.7-inch, two quick-firing; two 1.5-inch; five muzzle loaders.
The "Yankee's" tonnage is 4,695 tons; length, 408 feet; beam, 48 feet. The battery carried consists of ten five-inch quick-firing breechloaders, six six-pounders, and two Colt automatic guns. After events proved conclusively the efficiency of the "Yankee's" armament. The detail was taken alongside the "Yankee" by the tug.
The sun glistened on the bright brass and nickel parts, and glinted from the gleaming barrels of the quick-firing guns. "That's enough!" Tom called to the men below, who were paying out the ropes from the windlasses. "Hold her there." Tom, Ned, Lieutenant Marbury and Mr. Damon were aboard the captive Mars.
One day a lady was wheeling her two babies in a mail-cart up and down the wide road, while the Boers were busily shelling a distant part of the defences. The children clapped their hands when they heard the peculiar siren and whistle of the quick-firing Krupp shells, followed by dull thuds, as they buried themselves in the ground.
Upon the conclusion of these trials, which were the most successful recorded, quick-firing tests in the horizontal plane were carried out. The best performance in this instance was the discharge of five rounds in eight seconds. In this instance the paths of the projectiles were simple and easy to follow, the flight of the shell being observed until it fell some 18,670 feet away.
The number of assailants was too small for an attack on so great an extent of fortified positions defended with quick-firing rifles. Had the Russians, while making feints at other points to hold the Turks there, concentrated their efforts either on the two Grivitza redoubts, or on those about the Kavanlik work, they would almost certainly have succeeded.
High up in the side of the Satsuma, close to the little 12-cm. quick-firing gun, a piece was seen to be missing when the smoke from the bursting shell had disappeared. "Good shot," came from above; "go on firing with shrapnel!" The distance-register silently showed the number 1850. Then came a deafening roar from below and the sharp ring of tearing iron.
"I I Nothing, for certain." Bixby was a small, nervous man, hot and quick-firing. He went off now, and said a number of severe things. Then: "Look here, what do you suppose I told you the names of those points for?" I tremblingly considered a moment then the devil of temptation provoked me to say: "Well to to be entertaining, I thought." This was a red flag to the bull.
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