Famous and decisive battles of the world; . ATTACK ON THE WALLS OF ACRE. 1346. ?N the 26th of August, 1346, was fought a gal-lant battle that, though marking no historicalmovement of nations or peoples, and thoughnot being one of the decisive battles of theworld, is memorable as the beginning of amilitary epoch. Light artillery had its bap-tism on that hard-fought field. Siege-guns had been known for had been used for centuries bythe Chinese, the Hindoos, the Arabs, the Moors, who broughtit to Spain. Siege-guns, clumsy and rude, to be sure, but gunsfor all that, had gr
Famous and decisive battles of the world; . ATTACK ON THE WALLS OF ACRE. 1346. ?N the 26th of August, 1346, was fought a gal-lant battle that, though marking no historicalmovement of nations or peoples, and thoughnot being one of the decisive battles of theworld, is memorable as the beginning of amilitary epoch. Light artillery had its bap-tism on that hard-fought field. Siege-guns had been known for had been used for centuries bythe Chinese, the Hindoos, the Arabs, the Moors, who broughtit to Spain. Siege-guns, clumsy and rude, to be sure, but gunsfor all that, had grown into use all over Christendom; but whenBerthold Schwartz stumbled upon the principle of graiiulatmgthe thin dust of the ancients, he contrived an explosive so pow-erful, that it gave him the name of inventor. Only twenty-sixyears before Cressy did he hit upon this improvement. Thennew guns sprang into use all over western Europe. Crudethings they were; and those which have made this battle thelight artillerists initial point, were not much larger and no moreformidable than
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