[Marxism] Wedemeyer and cannons

["Charles Brown" <cbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This may be the sentence that suggests that Engels is offering Wedemeyer
cannons. It's ambiguous.

CB


"You may have any number of Prussian howitzers, as they have all been
withdrawn now and replaced by rifled 6-pounders and 4-pounders (which fire
13-pound and 9-pound heavy shells). " Engels to Weydemeyer


http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1865/letters/65_03_10.htm


 


Engels To Joseph Weydemeyer
In St Louis

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Source: MECW Volume 42, p. 121;
First published: abridged in Die Neue Zeit, 1906-1907, and in full in Marx
and Engels, Works, Moscow, 1934.

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Incidentally, I am most grateful to you for your explanations about military
organisation in America, it was only as a result of them that I obtained a
clear picture of many aspects of the war there. I have been familiar with
the canons Napoléon for many a long year, the English had already replaced
them (light, smooth-bore 12-pounders with a charge weighing 1/4 of the ball)
when Louis Bonaparte re-invented them. You may have any number of Prussian
howitzers, as they have all been withdrawn now and replaced by rifled
6-pounders and 4-pounders (which fire 13-pound and 9-pound heavy shells). I
am not surprised that the elevation of your howitzers is only 5°, it was no
higher with the old long howitzers the French had (until 1856), and, if I am
not mistaken, the English ones were only a little more. In general, the
high-angle fire from howitzers has been used for a long time only by the
Germans; its great unreliability in range-finding in particular had brought
it into disrepute


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