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Fort Cumberland should be kept as defensible as possible until spring, Dinwiddie answered, but not made cannon-proof unless it could be done “at a small expence.”

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

He complained that the orders had not prescribed how Fort Cumberland was to be strengthened, “i.e., whether it is to be made cannon-proof or not,” and moreover had not stated what the budget would be.

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

He complained that the orders had not prescribed how Fort Cumberland was to be strengthened, “i.e., whether it is to be made cannon-proof or not,” and moreover had not stated what the budget would be.

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

He complained that the orders had not prescribed how Fort Cumberland was to be strengthened, “i.e., whether it is to be made cannon-proof or not,” and moreover had not stated what the budget would be.

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

Fort Cumberland should be kept as defensible as possible until spring, Dinwiddie answered, but not made cannon-proof unless it could be done “at a small expence.”

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

Fort Cumberland should be kept as defensible as possible until spring, Dinwiddie answered, but not made cannon-proof unless it could be done “at a small expence.”

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

He complained that the orders had not prescribed how Fort Cumberland was to be strengthened, “i.e., whether it is to be made cannon-proof or not,” and moreover had not stated what the budget would be.

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

Fort Cumberland should be kept as defensible as possible until spring, Dinwiddie answered, but not made cannon-proof unless it could be done “at a small expence.”

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

Yet such lodgings and neighbors, within and without, would not tend to produce very placid slumbers, even if the walls were cannon-proof.

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From the general character of his inventions, and from comparison of them, it appears he had full faith in cannon-proof floating batteries as a means of defence, and, we may consequently and justly infer, as superior to the latter.

The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various