Explosion of the Gun-Cotton
Anon
Genre: | News-Commentary, Drollery |
Subjects: | Military Technology, War |
Notes the declining enthusiasm for gun cotton, which has failed to fulfil such 'brilliant promises' as doing 'away with war, by making the destruction of the human species so easy that a baby might be a Field-Marshall'. | |
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