Crossword-Solution: PDRS 4 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

They were superlatively well hidden, and the major-general himself had to laugh when one battalion commander, saying, "There's one just about here, sir," was startled by a corporal's voice near his very boot-toes calling out, "Yes, sir, it's here, sir." Gunners had the rare experience of circling their battery positions with barbed wire, and siting machine-guns for hand-to-hand protection of the 18 pdrs.

For example, the officers state the model and plan shown them would produce a battery carrying 24 guns (24- and 32-pdrs.), and a letter from Fulton to Jones,[9] shows she was to be 138 feet on deck and 55-foot beam.

How many forms of the barbette-carriage are in use in the service? Two: one for _iron guns_ and sea-coast howitzers (12, 18, 24, 32, 42-pdrs., and 8 and 10-in.); and one for the columbiads.

What are the dimensions required for an earthen parapet to resist the fire of field or siege guns? 6 feet for 6-pdrs.; 14 feet for 12-pdrs.; 18 feet for 24 or 18-pdrs.; four feet of oak or brick will resist cannon shot.