Punch,  39 (1860), 200.

Very Heavy Ordnance

Anon

Genre:

News-Commentary

Subjects:

Military Technology, Political Economy


    Notes from the Mechanics' Magazine that Armstrong guns have cost the country £2,000 each, which, according to Punch, means that 'We ought to be able to knock La Gloire into atoms with our two-thousand-pounders'.



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