Word: guns
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...LeRoy de Chaumont, father of the young gentleman who will have the honor of waiting on you with this, was the first in France who gave us credit, and before the court showed us any countenance, trusted us with 2,000 barrels of gun powder, . . . . which for want of due returns, they being of great amount, has finally much distressed him in his circumstances...
...Construction Engineering. 2. Ship and Marine Engineering. Submarines and Their Detection. Camouflage at Sea. 3. Military Roads and Road Vehicles, Automobiles, Locomotives, Tanks, etc. 4. Aeronautic Engineering. Zeppelins, Dirigibles, Captive Baloons, Airplanes, Aerial Camouflage. 5. Airplane Engineering. Aerial Photography. 6. Radio Engineering. Signals and Communication. 7. Ordnance and Engineering. Guns and Gun Detection. Reglage. Searchlights and Illuminating Engineering. 8. Sanitary and Medical Engineering. Water, Ice, Gas, and Gas Defense. Protection against Disease...
...ordinary soldier (doughboy, as he is called) certainly has a hard life even if he escapes being wounded. He sometimes goes two or three days without food and is constantly exposed to the dampness and cold as to shell fragments and machine-gun bullets. They are the most uncomplaining lot, however, and are very happy to be back where they can get a chance to sleep on something...
...dead, of course, are all now buried, save perhaps a few horses hidden in woods or hollows, but advertising their presence in a most "impossible to be ignored" manner. The roads are lined with dumps of material--shells, grenades, rifle and machine gun amunition, discarded rifles, helmets--everything, in fact, one sees along those roads, though of course it is being rapidly collected by the salvage departments, sorted and sent back to salvage depot for repair, renovation, and reissue--for a use is found for almost everything, no matter how badly smashed and broken...
...million trumpets of brass--"We've just begun to fight!" Wild, discordant, terrible it was--it is, for it will ring in my ears henceforth--our tocsin! the tocsin of a hundred million people speaking one wrath and one purpose. It was, it is, our answer to the great gun in the woods of St. Gobain, shelling the churches on Good Friday. It stoops to no further mockery of argument or negotiation, yet says as definitely as human voice ever spoke "In the name of God and humanity, and of a just and permanent peace to a free world...