Artillery Notes..., Issues 26-31Coast artillery school Press, 1906 |
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Page 61 - It was my hope that an attack on your part of these shore batteries from the rear would leave us at liberty to drag the channel for torpedoes. "If it is your earnest desire that we should force our entrance I will at once prepare to undertake it. I think, however, that our position and yours would be made more difficult if, as is possible, we fail in our attempt.
Page 61 - We have in our outfit at Guantanamo forty countermining mines, which I will bring here with as little delay as possible, and if we can succeed in freeing the entrance of mines by their use I will enter the harbor. "This work, which is unfamiliar to us, will require considerable time. "It is not so much the loss of men as it is the loss of ships which has until now deterred me from making a direct attack upon the ships within the port.
Page 20 - The enemy having taken up their position apparently with the view not only to be protected by the strong works on the Isle d'Aix, but also to have the entrance to the Charente open to them, that in case of being attacked by fire-ships and other engines of the kind, they can run up the river beyond the reach of them. The tide and wind that are favorable to convey this kind of annoyance to the enemy serve equally to carry them up the river.
Page 67 - Fortifications, ships and cannons have always been so related that ships have needed a very considerable superiority in volume of fire to engage shore batteries without severe loss, and when the ships have suffered little it is more often because the gun detachments are driven away than because the battery is badly injured. With regard to the gun, therefore, we conclude that its use and tactics in 'the future will be what they have been in the past without being much affected by possible changes...
Page 61 - They cannot even prevent our entrance into the harbor of Santiago. Our trouble from the first has been that the channel to the harbor is well strewn with observation mines, which would certainly result in the sinking of one or more of our ships if we attempted to enter the harbor, and by the sinking of a ship the object of the attempt to enter the harbor would be defeated by the preventing of further progress on our part. It...
Page 61 - Our trouble from the first has been that the channel to the harbor is well strewn with observation mines, which would certainly result in the sinking of one or more of our ships if we attempted to enter the harbor, and by the sinking of a ship the object of the attempt to enter the harbor would be defeated by the preventing of further progress on our part. It was my hope that an attack on your part of these shore batteries, from the rear, would leave us at liberty to drag the channel for torpedoes.
Page 61 - It is impossible for me to say when I can take batteries at entrance to harbor. If they are as difficult to take as those we have been pitted against it will be some time and at a great loss of life. I am at a loss to see why the navy cannot work under a destructive fire as well as the army.
Page 60 - Impossible to force entrance until we can clear channel of mines — a work of some time after forts are taken possession of by your troops. Nothing in this direction accomplished yesterday by the advance on Aguadores.
Page 60 - Terrible fight yesterday, but my line is now strongly entrenched about three-quarters of a mile from town. I urge you to make effort immediately to force the entrance to avoid future losses among my men, which are already very heavy. You can operate with less loss of life than I can.
Page 20 - ... until they are destroyed — there not being sufficient depth of water to allow them to move to the southward out of distance. " The enemy having taken up their position apparently with the view not only to be protected by the strong works on the Isle d'Aix, but also to have the entrance of the Charente open to them, that in case of being attacked by fire-ships and other engines of the kind, they can run up the river beyond the reach of them.