item: #1 of 8 id: 30047 author: Abbot, Willis J. (Willis John) title: Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons date: None words: 118644 flesch: 69 summary: The submarines and near-submarines built in the United States during the Civil War were remarkable rather for what they actually accomplished than for what they contributed towards the development of submarine boats. Perhaps the greatest service which they rendered in the latter direction was that they proved to the satisfaction of many scientific men that submarine boats really held vast possibilities as instruments of naval warfare. keywords: air; aircraft; airplane; american; army; attack; aviation; aviator; away; aërial; balloon; battle; boat; bombs; british; carrying; construction; course; crew; day; days; depth; development; earth; end; enemy; engine; england; fact; feet; fighting; fire; flying; france; french; gas; general; german; government; ground; guns; half; high; holland; hours; illustration; lake; light; lines; machine; means; men; miles; military; moment; motor; naval; navy; new; number; people; pilot; place; point; position; power; result; sea; service; ship; speed; states; submarine; submarine boat; surface; time; torpedo; type; united; use; vessel; war; water; way; work; world; years; zeppelin cache: 30047.txt plain text: 30047.txt item: #2 of 8 id: 41426 author: Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel title: Annals of a Fortress date: None words: 104798 flesch: 68 summary: Figure 49 presents a bird's-eye view of the northern boulevard, D, with the _cité_ front in the background, its gate of the fourteenth century, and the two great corner towers. When these old men are further asked whether there were other human beings before them settled in the valley, they answer that there were; but that they were small men--dwarfs--who ate earth, and had no bows and arrows to kill the wild beasts, nor hooks to catch fish, nor canoes to cross the river; that at the approach of the present inhabitants, these dwarfs disappeared, and took refuge underground, whence they came out sometimes in the night to do mischief--to cut the fastenings of boats, or sink the boats themselves--to cause children at the breast to die, or to break the bows, or warn the animals of the forest of an intended chase, so that they might get out of the way. keywords: abbey; arms; army; assailants; attack; baron; batteries; besieged; besiegers; body; bridge; burgundians; camp; castle; cité; day; defence; defenders; ditch; duke; enemy; fig; fire; garrison; gate; good; great; guns; illustration; inhabitants; left; men; night; north; pieces; place; plateau; pont; rampart; river; roche; second; set; sigild; small; time; tower; town; troops; valley; wall; warriors; way; work cache: 41426.txt plain text: 41426.txt item: #3 of 8 id: 44370 author: Hanguillart, André Godefroy Lionel title: Handy War Guide for My Company: Handy Company Commander's Guide date: None words: 11772 flesch: 74 summary: If enemy is detected, these sentinels should hasten back to fire trench to give the alarm quietly so that the enemy may be surprised. Inspection of sentinels in fire trench. keywords: advance; artillery; attack; commander; company; defense; enemy; fire; fire trench; line; men; night; patrols; trench; trenches cache: 44370.txt plain text: 44370.txt item: #4 of 8 id: 44734 author: Vickers, Leslie title: Training for the Trenches A Practical Handbook Based upon Personal Experience During the First Two Years of the War in France date: None words: 24751 flesch: 74 summary: It may be desirable to indicate the various kinds of shell fire to which trench men are exposed. From my own experience I could tell of many men who were permanently rendered unfit as soldiers through foolish indulgence. keywords: army; attack; body; course; cover; earth; enemy; feet; fire; food; gas; good; guns; lines; man; men; officers; shells; soldier; time; training; trenches; use; war; water; work cache: 44734.txt plain text: 44734.txt item: #5 of 8 id: 45884 author: Clinch, George title: English Coast Defences From Roman Times to the Early Years of the Nineteenth Century date: None words: 28435 flesch: 70 summary: It is noteworthy that Caesar says nothing about coast defences in the form of earthworks, or indeed in any other form, and it is on other grounds improbable that the Britons possessed any provision of that kind against invading enemies, although they themselves lived in stockaded enclosures. In the year 1896 some Roman foundations were accidentally discovered in the western part of the island which, upon examination, appear to have an important bearing on the Roman scheme of coast defence in this part of Britain. keywords: castle; century; chain; cinque; coast; defence; dover; east; enemy; england; feet; fig; gate; henry; illustration; kent; norman; north; period; plan; ports; roman; saxon; sea; ships; south; time; towers; town; viii; walls cache: 45884.txt plain text: 45884.txt item: #6 of 8 id: 53126 author: Army War College (U.S.) title: Specimens of British Trench Orders date: None words: 18178 flesch: 77 summary: Duties 1 Sentries 2 Rifles, equipment, and ammunition 3 Stand to 4 Bombs and grenades, care of 5 Machine guns 6 Firing at aeroplanes 7 Trench sides, undercutting of 8 Sanitation 9 Time-tables and organization of work 10 Log books and trench store books 11 Communications 12 Alertness 13 Rum 14 Arrangements in case of attack 15 Working parties on front trench 16 Working parties outside the front trench 17 Precaution when our mines are exploded 18 Ration parties when found from front trenches 19 Rations and cooking 20 Vermorel sprayers 21 Reliefs: General 22 Points to be noted by company commanders 23 Guides 24 Smoking and talking 25 Rate of march to trenches 26 Procedure on arrival in trenches 27 Engineers 28 Chilled feet and frostbite, prevention of 29 CANADIAN CORPS TRENCH ORDERS. Previous to a tour of trench duty, men's feet will be well rubbed with oil or grease and dry socks put on. keywords: battalion; brigade; commander; company; duty; enemy; gas; line; men; officer; parties; platoon; trenches; work cache: 53126.txt plain text: 53126.txt item: #7 of 8 id: 59420 author: Army War College (U.S.) title: Use of Mines in Trench Warfare (From the French School of St. Cyr) date: None words: 3358 flesch: 72 summary: Use of mines 5 Specially menaced points 5 Surface observations 5 Indications revealing enemy galleries 6 Listening for underground noise 6 Position of listening posts 6 Hours and precautions 7 What is heard 7 Distance at which noise can be heard 7 Direction from which noise comes 8 Useful information on mines 8 Defensive systems 8 Interval between galleries 8 Start, depth, and progress of work 9 Barrage trench for miners 9 Camouflet 9 Offensive galleries 10 Superimposed galleries 10 Mine chamber 11 Launching an attack 11 Craters 11 Craters to be occupied 11 Craters that the enemy occupies 12 Craters not occupied 12 Diagrams 9, 10, 12, 13 USE OF MINES IN TRENCH WARFARE. Four or five meters of enemy trench without loopholes, but with loopholes close together to the left and right, may mark a gallery entrance. keywords: enemy; fig; gallery; line; meters; trench cache: 59420.txt plain text: 59420.txt item: #8 of 8 id: 793 author: Talbot, Frederick Arthur Ambrose title: Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War date: None words: 61923 flesch: 57 summary: The Allied forces improvised travelling anti-aircraft offences by mounting the latest types of Vickers, Hotchkiss, and other machine guns in armoured motor cars. Other German machines which are used in the military service are the Gotha and the Albatross. keywords: aerial; aeroplane; air; aircraft; airman; airship; artillery; balloon; bomb; british; craft; enemy; fact; feet; field; fire; firing; force; french; gas; german; ground; gun; guns; height; lines; machine; manner; means; miles; military; motor; operations; point; position; range; result; shell; speed; time; type; vessel; war; work; zeppelin cache: 793.txt plain text: 793.txt