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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 4 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2 0 Browse Search
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The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 1: The Opening Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 2 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 0 Browse Search
Baron de Jomini, Summary of the Art of War, or a New Analytical Compend of the Principle Combinations of Strategy, of Grand Tactics and of Military Policy. (ed. Major O. F. Winship , Assistant Adjutant General , U. S. A., Lieut. E. E. McLean , 1st Infantry, U. S. A.) 2 0 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), R. (search)
ates. 6. (Shipbuilding.) A spar, hooped at the end, and used for moving timbers on end by a jolting blow. 7. (Nautical.) A projecting device at the bow of a war-vessel, designed to crush in the sides of an adversary by running against her end on. It formed a very important means of offense in ancient naval warfare, the prows of galleys in former times having been, as may be seen by the examination of old coins and sculptures, generally furnished with rams. At the battle of Salamis, 480 B. C., Queen Artemisia, an Asiatic Greek herself, though allied with the Persians, effected her escape by running down a Persian ship, causing the Greeks to mistake her galley for one belonging to their own fleet. The term ram is also applied to a ship provided with such an appendage. The great ship of Ptolemy Philopator had two heads. two sterns, and seven beaks, one of which was longer than the others. With the introduction of armor-plating the use of the ram has been reviv
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), Y. (search)
x-yoke. Horses were yet yoked to the poles of the chariots in the time of Xerxes. The sacred chariot of Jupiter (Ormuzd), mentioned by Xenophon in his description of the train of Cyrus, had golden yokes and was drawn by white horses. The Persian monarchs fought from chariots down to the time of the Macedonian conquest. The white horses were raised on the Nicaean plain, in Media, and were a peculiar breed belonging to the king. The Greeks captured them from Xerxes after the defeat at Salamis. The curious yoke over the withers of the Russian horses is probably a survival of an old type. Oxen (1000 B. C.) were yoked by the horns in Greece (Homer). Ox-yokes (ancient Egypt). A knotted thong secured the yoke to the pole of the chariot of Gordius, king of Phrygia. It was a complicated tie, and formed the famous Gordian knot which was cut asunder by the sword of Alexander; his favorite mode of solving a difficulty. Varro (50 B. C.) recommends that in breaking oxen their ne