The Monitor of the Civil War

ISBN: 9781331331360 出版年：2016 页码：39 David R Ellis Forgotten Books

The system of mounting heavy guns in revolving tur rets was advocated at quite an early date in England. Captain Cowper Cowles, in 1860, after his expenences in the Crimean war, advised the British Government to con vert a few of her men-of-war into turreted battleships.