War-engines took colossal proportions, and projectiles launched beyond permitted distances cut inoffensive pedestrians to pieces.

All these inventions left the timid instruments of European artillery far behind them.

This may be estimated by the following figures:-- Formerly, "in the good old times," a thirty-six pounder, at a distance of three hundred feet, would cut up thirty-six horses, attacked in flank, and sixty-eight men.

The art was then in its infancy.
Projectiles have since made their way.

The Rodman gun that sent a projectile weighing half a ton a distance of seven miles could easily have cut up a hundred and fifty horses and three hundred men.