Since the last war the French have adopted breech-loading rifled pieces more or less on the model of the Krupp guns, treated with such disdain by the military advisers of Napoleon III.
Of seventy-five hits on the hulls of the ships only five can with certainty be ascribed to projectiles from rifled guns, and thirty were unquestionably due to the old smoothbores, which were not provided with sights.
The Egyptian gunners had been little trained, and many of them had never once practised with rifled ordnance.
As many as twenty-eight rifled guns and 140 smoothbores would have opened fire on the following day.
What has rifled it of power to abolish slavery in another part of its jurisdiction, especially in that part where it has "exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever?
The mirrored door of the rifled wardrobe stood ajar, revealing an enticing emptiness.
And having seen her "Princess" safely ensconced in the attic, she rifled the stocking, and returned to the coiffeur.
The shells and carriage were left behind by the Confederates, but the rifled gun to which they belonged was taken along in the retreat.
The commissary depot had been broken open by the starving mob, and rifled of its contents, until the place was reached by the spreading flames.
During the day the pastime here was sharp-shooting with muskets and rifled cannon.
Along the Richmond & York River Railroad, seen in the picture, the Confederates rolled a heavy rifled gun, mounted on car-wheels.
We have captured nine hundred prisoners, sixty-seven pieces of cannon, Armstrong guns and rifled cannon, hundreds of wagons, loads of provisions and ammunition.
Let Osborn pitch in the shells from his rifled pieces," said the Major.
The horizon was bright with fiery arches, crossing each other at all angles, cut horizontally by streams of fire from rifled cannon.
I let them have my ten-inch Dahlgren and my two rifled forty-two pounders one after another, and drove them till their batteries on the bluff above the town opened on me.
Captain Ransom and Lieutenant Simpson had twelve-pounders, the others were three-inch rifled guns.
With these instructions he led his fleet up the narrow channel under cover of Pine Island, thus avoiding long-range shot from the rifled guns which it was known the enemy had in position to sweep the main channel.
The armament was to consist of the most powerful rifled guns, loading at the breech, and provided with elongated shot and shell.
At length some of the steerage passengers broke into the cabins, which they rifled of everything on which they could lay their hands, and unfortunately discovered several cases of brandy and wine.
Some, in their madness, broke open the surgeon's dispensary, and rifled it of its contents, swallowing the drugs indiscriminately.
Three-barrel guns were also made from one piece of steel, two bores for shot and the third rifled for a bullet.
Smooth-bore cannon and mortars of cast-iron and bronze are still retained in some fortresses, though rifled cannon are the only type now made.
The rifle, however, antedated the rifled cannon, the type of modern artillery.
For rifled cannon the shell shall be fitted with one-half percussion, one-half time fuze.
In the use of theserifled cannon, it is of the utmost importance that all the directions relative to the lubrication of the shell, its being close home, charge and kind of powder used, and lining of the shells, shall be carefully observed.
All rifled projectiles used in the Navy are of the expanding class; that is, forced into the grooves by the action of the charge of powder, and require no other precautions in loading than common spherical shells.
Ricochet is of no value from rifled guns firing elongated projectiles, as they lose all certainty of direction on the rebound.
That the bores of all guns shall be frequently washed, the grooves of rifled guns cleaned of all residuum and dirt, and a moist sponge invariably used.
This method has the advantage of adjusting the sights in any plane parallel to the axis, as in the case of the side-sights of rifled and other cannon.
Hitherto no certain or efficient time-fuze has been adopted for rifled howitzers.
These guns are all rifled to the right, by which it is understood that the upper surface of the projectile is made to turn from left to right, the observer looking from the breech towards the muzzle of the gun.
The introduction of the 12-pounder rifled howitzer has greatly extended the accuracy and effective range of the boat and field artillery.
The safety-plug should be removed when the Navy time-fuse is used in rifled cannon, as recent experiments show that it is a probable cause of premature explosions of shells.
Major Mordecai’s Report of the Military Commission to Europe—Schön’s Rifled Infantry Arms.
In the Austrian army the artillery was provided with bronze muzzle-loading rifled guns, classified as 8-pdrs.
The Prussian artillery was armed mainly with steel breech-loading rifled guns.
If that same steamer had had for a bow-chaser the heavy rifled gun she had a few months later, the result would have been different.
They had rifled the stores and demolished the fort; then, throwing into the river everything they could not carry, had made off.
It rifled and well-nigh exhausted the rich granary which fed the Confederate army, and by destroying the railroads prevented even what was left being sent to them.
Who would believe his story, now that he had been caught almost in front of the rifled vault?
There is something altogether out of the usual order in this affair," he muttered to himself, as he stood musing before the rifled vault.
Left to himself within the banking-room, Detective Hook, with the closest scrutiny, began a systematic examination of the rifled vault and its surroundings.
Instantly Frank recognized it as a box filled with various private documents, intrusted for safe-keeping to the bank, which he had often seen quietly reposing within the rifled vault.
Colonel Morgan appeared to be very angry, as there was no use of any rifled batteries.
Men of every detachment were selected to accompany an expedition on board a steamer towards Aquia Creek, to try one of James' rifled guns of heavy calibre upon the rebel battery there.
He filled the rockeries with rare ferns, and covered over all the waste corners about the grounds with delicate anemones, variegated hyacinths, and the sweet, wild white bluebell, rifledfrom the darkest recesses of Copsley Wood.
It ought to be added, however, that the Romans had no daily press, and that journalism, as we understand it, was as unknown to the Caesars as were steamships and rifled cannon.
