Modern Guns and Gunnery, 1907. A Practical Manual for Officers of the Horse, Field and Mountain Artillery [Second Edition, British Army]

Modern Guns and Gunnery, 1907. A Practical Manual for Officers of the Horse, Field and Mountain Artillery [Second Edition, British Army]

Author: Lt.-Colonel H A Bethell (Henry Arthur)

Year: 1907

Digitised by Google Books from the collection of the University of Chicago, see Source below. If necessary, click on Show More, below. The author was part of the Royal Field Artillery, British Army. The first edition of this title appears to have been published 1905. The Preface to the Second Edition, dated 1 May 1907, says "Since the first edition of this book was issued, the development of the quick-firing gun has proceeded with extraordinary rapidity. All the military nations of the world have adopted Q.F. field guns, and re-armament with Q.F. howitzers and mountain guns is now proceeding. The principles of construction remain unchanged, but the improvements which have been introduced have rendered it necessary to re- write the whole of the sections dealing with guns, carriages, and ammunition, and with English and foreign Q.F. equipments. In the domain of practical gunnery, the principal change has been the adoption of a more elastic system, enabling battery commanders to use the novel fire-tactics introduced by the French without abandoning the older and more deliberate methods. In view of the general adoption of fire from the covered position as the normal method, fresh chapt