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short 1904 book by the
British Army
officer Ernest Swinton.
Lieutenant Backsight Forethought (BF) and his
command of
fifty men are
given the task to defend...
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either another known point or
along an azimuth,
which is to be held as a
backsight —
sighting with the
reticle inside the
eyepiece — then
holding that line...
- two
foresights and two
backsights and
makes sure the
difference between the
foresights and the
difference between the
backsights are equal,
thereby reducing...
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April 1916. p. 3994. Swinton,
Ernest (under the
pseudonym "Lieutenant
Backsight Forethought"), The
Defence of Duffer's Drift, Oxford:
United Service Magazine...
- rod back and
forth until it
accurately lined up with
another one as a
backsight or foresight) and the
Welsh verb 'dodi'
meaning to lay or place. He thus...
- An Elton's
quadrant is a
derivative of the
Davis quadrant. It adds an
index arm and
artificial horizon to the instrument, and was
invented by
English sea...
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vertical ****s. The
foresight is
sloted in,
mostly semi-round,
while the
backsight is a long, V-shaped
groove on the top
strap above the cylinder. It has...
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military tactics manual,
framed as a
series of six
dreams by "Lieutenant
Backsight Forethought"
about the
defence of a
river crossing in the Boer War. BF...
- pp. 281, 282, 519, 532, 613. ISBN 978-3-11-018464-8. "Design of the
Backsight Point Configuration".
Trimble knowledge Center. Trimble.
Retrieved 10...
- It was ****ed with a "globe and pinhead"
foresight and a "buckhorn"
backsight on the barrel. It also
featured a well-made peep
sight ****ed on the small...
