coast-defense

In 1888 a Board of Officers convened by President Cleveland adopted a comprehensive scheme of coast-defense fortifications which involved the outlay of something over one hundred million dollars.

State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.

The heavy caterpillars, mounting projectors quite comparable in size and power with the warships 'own-weapons similar in purpose and function to the railway-carriage coast-defense guns of an earlier day -were likewise ready.

Gray Lensman Smith, E. E. 1950

Many of the structures we have would enhance rather than diminish the perils of their garrisons if subjected to the fire of improved guns, and very few are so located as to give full effect to the greater range of such guns as we are now making for coast-defense uses.

State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.

There are fifty-eight or more military posts in the United States other than the coast-defense fortifications.

State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.

I concur in the recommendations of the Secretary that adequate and regular appropriations be continued for coast-defense works and ordnance.

State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.

And for its beach defense there were numerous weapons—grenades, mortars, rifles, light and heavy machine guns, … antiboat guns, and … coast-defense guns …

The Story of World War II Donald L. Miller 1945

And for its beach defense there were numerous weapons—grenades, mortars, rifles, light and heavy machine guns, … antiboat guns, and … coast-defense guns …

The Story of World War II Donald L. Miller 1945

This monster projectile, as large as the largest of those fired by our coast-defense guns, must have weighed considerably more than a thousand pounds and doubtless cost the Germans at least a thousand dollars, yet all the damage it had done was to destroy a tumble-down and uninhabited cottage, which proves that, save against permanent fortifications, there is a point where the usefulness of these abnormally large guns ceases.

Italy at War and the Allies in the West 1918

Nearly all of these railway guns are, I understand, naval or coast-defense pieces, some of them being long-range weapons cut down to form howitzers or mortars, while others have been created by boring to a larger caliber

Italy at War and the Allies in the West 1918

Department, did a large amount of topographic and geologic mapping of the eastern areas for coast-defense purposes.

The Economic Aspect of Geology 1915