Not less than five hundred pieces of ordnance were directed against the walls, and the precision with which the fire was kept up, the position of the vessels, and, lastly, the blowing up of the large magazine--all aided in achieving this great victory in so short a time.

He had thought it right to say thus much, because he wished to warn the public against supposing that such deeds as this could be effected every day.

He would repeat that this was a singular instance, in the achievement of which undoubtedly great skill was manifested, but which was also connected with peculiar circumstances, which they could not hope always to occur.

It must not therefore be expected, as a matter of course, that all such attempts must necessarily succeed." Having completed our examination of the ability of land batteries to cope, gun for gun, with a naval force, let us consider, for a few moments, the objection which is sometimes made to the use of fortifications for the defence of the sea-coast, viz.: _that our maritime cities and arsenals can be better and more economically secured by a home squadron_.
We have already alluded to the impossibility of substituting one means of defence for another.

The efficiency of the bayonet can in no way enable us to dispense with artillery, nor the value of engineer troops in the passage of rivers, and the attack and defence of forts, render cavalry the less necessary in other operations of a campaign.