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Front Cover: William Armstrong’s early “monster” guns—rifled muzzle-loaders—were tested at the government firing range at Shoeburyness in the 1860s. (From Illustrated London News, August 20, 1864, p. 189, detail.) See Marshall J. Bastable, “From Breechloaders to Monster Guns: Sir William Armstrong and the Invention of Modern Artillery, 1854-1880,” pp. 213-247.
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