From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne

From the Earth to the MoonJules Verne · 1865The Baltimore Gun Club fires a projectile at the Moon (19th-century translation). Read From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne page by page and explore its…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…All books in the ECCE gallery