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Title: Obscure Military Strategy Print Concerning Defence of a Town by Locomotive Batteries Drawn by Boydell's Endless Railway
Description: Day & Son, 0. . c.1860 ? Oblong folio (10 x 12 1/2 - 26 x 32 cms) folded single sheet ? handbill with sketch of a town with inward roads blocked with defensive batteries. Boats offshore. Site of batteries hand coloured in red. Caption beneath reads: Supposed position of Locomotive Batteries, in front of Force to oppose an invading army on Roads, placed within a mile of each Detachment of three Batteries, so that no part of an army could pass between any two of them without being subject to the discharge of the sixty rifles, making six hundred rounds in ten minutes, besides the six canons (one in each battery); which battery to be propelled to the desired spot by Boydell's Endlless Railway, whiuch then retires out of danger. The ten riflemen in each Battery ould move it some distance, by using machinery attached to the wheels - A Model of the Battery can be seen at Mr.Henney's, No.104, Gloucester Place, Portman Square. Undated - but Boydellls' endless Railway ( an early form of steam driven caterpillar tuck was invented around 1858 - this may have related to the Crimean War. Paper slightly yellowed but still VG . Very Good

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