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Jules Verne: The Classics Novels Collection
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Table of Contents
From the Earth to the Moon
Five Weeks in a Balloon
Around the World in Eighty Days
Facing the Flag
The Master of the World
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
The Mysterious Island
Michael Strogoff, or The Courier of the Czar
The Survivors of the Chancellor
The Underground City
A Journey into the Center of the Earth
Dick Sands the Boy Captain
Eight Hundred Leagues On The Amazon
Godfrey Morgan
Robur the Conqueror
Ticket No. "9672"
In the Year 2889
An Antarctic Mystery
Off on a Comet
From the Earth to the Moon
Jules Verne
Published:
1865
Email:
golden.deer.classics@gmail.com
Source:
Golden Deer Classics
Chapter
1

The Gun Club
During the War of the Rebellion, a new and influential club was established in the city of Baltimore in the State of Maryland. It is well known with what energy the taste for military matters became developed among that nation of ship-owners, shopkeepers, and mechanics. Simple tradesmen jumped their counters to become extemporized captains, colonels, and generals, without having ever passed the School of Instruction at West Point; nevertheless; they quickly rivaled their compeers of the old continent, and, like them, carried off victories by dint of lavish expenditure in ammunition, money, and men.
But the point in which the Americans singularly distanced the Europeans was in the science of gunnery. Not, indeed, that their weapons retained a higher degree of perfection than theirs, but that they exhibited unheard-of dimensions, and consequently attained hitherto unheard-of ranges. In point of grazing, plunging, oblique, or enfilading, or point-blank firing, the English, French, and Prussians have nothing to learn; but their cannon, howitzers, and mortars are mere pocket-pistols compared with the formidable engines of the American artillery.
This fact need surprise no one. The Yankees, the first mechanicians in the world, are engineers— just as the Italians are musicians and the Germans metaphysicians— by right of birth. Nothing is more natural, therefore, than to perceive them applying their audacious ingenuity to the science of gunnery. Witness the marvels of Parrott, Dahlg ............

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