PROPOSED RUSSIAN FIELD GUM, 
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Description of guns. 
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7-68 
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3-465 
8-86 
64 
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1-24 
13 
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20-35 
0-7 
170 
0-58 
Austria 
Russia 
France .. 
Switzerland 
England ... 
Germany ... 
Italy... 
4-pr 
8- pr 
9- pr 
16-pr 
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4-pr., light.. 
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9-pr.. 
C5k 
f 8C 
110c 
* Let the reader judge how far the eulogium passed on this gun is deserved after considering 
the bearing of this figure. The main essential of a gun is to hit hard. It admits of a doubt 
whether this gun can.— JEng. Tr. 
f At p. 2 of an article translated from the “ Revue Militaire de l’Etranger,” published in R.A, 
Institution “Translations,” No. 1 Yol. IX., it is stated, with regard to the new German gun 3 , 
