'Lord Bomb' and 'The Cannon King': A Tale of Two Victorian Arms Magnates
(2015)
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Bennett, M. (2015). 'Lord Bomb' and 'The Cannon King': A Tale of Two Victorian Arms Magnates
In 1854, as Europe prepared for the Crimean War, its artillery differed little from that of the armies of Waterloo forty years earlier: bronze tubes mounted on wooden carriages, dragged into visible range of the enemy, loaded from the muzzle with sol... Read More about 'Lord Bomb' and 'The Cannon King': A Tale of Two Victorian Arms Magnates.