Monitor of the Civil War

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The system of mounting heavy guns in revolving tur rets was advocated at quite an early date in England. Captain Cowper Cowles, in 1860, after his expenences in the Crimean war, advised the British Government to con...