A New Shell
Anon
Genre: | News-Commentary, Drollery |
Subjects: | Military Technology |
Responding to news that a shell can swiftly sink a 120-gun vessel, hopes the shell will be 'exhibited in 1851' (a reference to the Great Exhibition) to 'hatch the dove' of 'perpetual peace'. | |
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