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Re: First Land Battle of the US Civil War

Posted: 2011-06-25 05:59pm
by Spoonist
Sea Skimmer wrote:One of the Danish forts gave a remarkable demonstration of the power of earthworks too, I forget its name but the place was barely more then a ditch and a parapet and held out against massive attacks and artillery barrages, which European generals happily ignored after the fact.
Do you mean Dybbøl? If so it had the help of an Ironclad.