From the Earth to the Moon

By Verne, Jules

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Title:	From the Earth to the Moon
Author:	Verne, Jules
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Blackmask Online Collection
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Excerpt: Chapter 1. THE GUN CLUB During the War of the Rebellion, a new and influential club was established in the city of Baltimore in the State of Maryland. It is well known with what energy the taste for military matters became developed among that nation of ship?owners, shopkeepers, and mechanics. Simple tradesmen jumped their counters to become extemporized captains, colonels, and generals, without having ever passed the School of Instruction at West Point; nevertheless; they quickly rivaled their compeers of the old continent, and, like them, carried off victories by dint of lavish expenditure in ammunition, money, and men. But the point in which the Americans singularly distanced the Europeans was in the science of gunnery. Not, indeed, that their weapons retained a higher degree of perfection than theirs, but that they exhibited unheard?of dimensions, and consequently attained hitherto unheard?of ranges. In point of grazing, plunging, oblique, or enfilading, or point?blank firing, the English, French, and Prussians have nothing to learn; but their cannon, howitzers, and mortars are mere pocket?pistols compared with the formidable engines of the American artillery.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: From the Earth to the Moon, 1 -- Jules Verne, 1 -- Chapter I. THE GUN CLUB, 1 -- Chapter II. PRESIDENT BARBICANE'S COMMUNICATION, 4 -- Chapter III. EFFECT OF THE PRESIDENT'S COMMUNICATION, 8 -- Chapter IV. REPLY FROM THE OBSERVATORY OF CAMBRIDGE, 9 -- Chapter V. THE ROMANCE OF THE MOON, 12 -- Chapter VI. PERMISSIVE LIMITS OF IGNORANCE AND BELIEF IN THE UNITED -- STATES, 14 -- Chapter VII. THE HYMN OF THE CANNON?BALL, 16 -- Chapter VIII. HISTORY OF THE CANNON, 19 -- Chapter IX. THE QUESTION OF THE POWDERS, 22 -- Chapter X. ONE ENEMY v. TWENTY?FIVE MILLIONS OF FRIENDS, 25 -- Chapter XI. FLORIDA AND TEXAS, 27 -- Chapter XII. URBI ET ORBI, 30 -- Chapter XIII. STONES HILL, 32 -- Chapter XIV. PICKAXE AND TROWEL, 35 -- Chapter XV. THE FETE OF THE CASTING, 37 -- Chapter XVI. THE COLUMBIAD, 39 -- Chapter XVII. A TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCH, 41 -- Chapter XVIII. THE PASSENGER OF THE ATLANTA, 41 -- Chapter XIX. A MONSTER MEETING, 44 -- Chapter XX. ATTACK AND RIPOSTE, 47 -- Chapter XXI. HOW A FRENCHMAN MANAGES AN AFFAIR, 53 -- Chapter XXII. THE NEW CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES, 58 -- Chapter XXIII. THE PROJECTILE?VEHICLE, 61 -- Chapter XXIV. THE TELESCOPE OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS, 62 -- Chapter XXV. FINAL DETAILS, 63 -- Chapter XXVI. FIRE!, 66 -- Chapter XXVII. FOUL WEATHER, 68 -- Chapter XXVIII. A NEW STAR, 69 -- From the Earth to the Moon