Word: arsenal
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...called Constitutionalists (Sun Yat-Sen troops) recaptured an arsenal from the Kwangsi army, commanded by General Shen Hung-Ying. Both sides suffered heavy casualties...
Thirty members of the University at tended the third R. O. T. C. camp at Edge wood Arsenal, Maryland last summer Field Artillery units from the University Yale, Princeton, Cornell, end Virginia Military institute were represented while infantry detachments from many smaller colleges were encamped in the same area. In all about 800 students received intensive training in field artillery or infantry work...
...University. Originally the camp was to be situated on Montauk Point, Long Island, but there was some difficulty in getting a location and the War Department was therefore forced to change its plans. The camp now decided on will be situated on the reservation of the Edgewood Arsenal, the permanent post and proving grounds of the Chemical Warfare Department. A large portion of the territory is taken up by the chemical plants, railroads, and pipe lines, but there is an area set aside for R. O. T. C. Artillery and infantry units, National Guard troops...
...Edgewood Arsenal is admirably situated for an R. O. T. C. camp. It is located on the main line of the Pennsylvania Railroad twenty miles north of Baltimore on a peninsula eight miles long and about two miles wide. This territory known as Gunpowder Neck, jutts out into Chespeake Bay between the mouths of the Gunpowder and Bush Rivers. The railroad cuts across the entire width of the neck forming the northern boundary of the Arsenal. On all other sides the Arsenal is surrounded by water, affording an excellent opportunity for boating, swimming, and fishing. In addition there are tennis...
...line of the Pennsylvania Railroad running between New York and Washington, was built as a permanent post for the Chemical Warfare Service. It is now the home of the First Brigade and the Sixth Regiment Field Artillery corps which will help with the work of the summer camp. The Arsenal is completely fitted out with concrete barracks and officers quarters, the reservation covering eight square miles. Two rivers border the grounds furnishing excellent facilities for swimming,-boating, and fishing. In addition there are tennis courts, a track, and a baseball diamond ready for use by the students this summer. According...