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Retained Traditional Rifled:
Since Terrier installations were to heavy for destroyers, the lighter Tartar missile were installed on the 8 large new destroyers o the Charles Francis Adams class, but the II still larger Farragut class frigates were equippa with single twin Terrier launchers. All thes vessels were known as single-end ships, sino they retained traditional rifled the traditional rifled guns in rur rets forward in addition to the missiles aft Finally the Navy decided to substitute missili launchers for the forward guns as well.Grooves were cut in the interior surface of the gun, and the bore was otherwise adapted to im¬part rotation to the specially designed projectiles. Among the succeeding designers of rifled guns and special projectiles were, in England, Arm¬strong, Blakely, Thomas, Whitworth, Bashley Britten, James M. Hadden, Charles Lancaster, and Cdr. R. A. E. Scott; in the United States, Parrott, Buckley, Benjamin Berkeley Hotchkiss, Charles Tillinghast James, Reed, Sylvanus Saw¬yer, Schenkle, and C. W. Stafford; and in France, Gen. Antoine H. T. Treuille de Beaulieu. The first gun rifled in America was made at the South Boston Iron Company in 1834.
See Also Traditional Burmese:
The territory, taken over by the government of India on Oct. 15, 1949, is centrally adminis¬tered by the Indian Government through a chief commissioner appointed by the president of India. It elects three members to the national parliament, and since Aug. 15, 1957, has had a territorial council of 30 elected and 2 nominated members which has autonomy over local issues. Manipur was an independent kingdom until conquered by the traditional Burmese in 1813. The raja appealed to the British for aid, and at the end of the first traditional Burmese war the traditional Burmese agreed to recognize Manipur as an independent state. In 1890 the raja was deposed by his brother; when the British chief commissioner of Assam tried to intervene and was slain a British force entered the country and set up a boy raja under a British political agent.Rangoon was captured by the in 1824, hut was restored to traditional Burmese i years later. The British landed again in d this time their occupation was to last . All dwellings in the traditional Burmese town had bamboo. The entirely new layout now ed followed the grid pattern of regular ks, found in almost every American city ual in Asia. The main streets were sited it the Sule Pagoda. lew city expanded rapidly as a mercantile and as the headquarters of British ad-ion and justice. In 1871 the king of ent down from Mandalay a golden hti i) to crown the Shwe Dagon Pagoda, -ied the edifice to its present height of above the pagoda platform. In 1874,
On The Other Hand See Traditional Entrepot:
Since the traditional entrepot trade of Hong ig was overshadowed by manufacturing, the le of domestic exports has increased to about • times that of re-exports. Important domestic )rts are clothing, Textile yarn and fabrics, tic flowers, toys and dolls, footwear, and sistor radios. Major markets are the United es, the United Kingdom, West Germany, aysia, Singapore, Canada, Japan, and Aus-a. Major re-exports are food, chemicals, and les, which are sent mainly to Indonesia, lysia, Singapore, Japan, the United States, Taiwan.Since the traditional entrepot trade of Hong ig was overshadowed by manufacturing, the le of domestic exports has increased to about • times that of re-exports. Important domestic )rts are clothing, Textile yarn and fabrics, tic flowers, toys and dolls, footwear, and sistor radios. Major markets are the United es, the United Kingdom, West Germany, aysia, Singapore, Canada, Japan, and Aus-a. Major re-exports are food, chemicals, and les, which are sent mainly to Indonesia, lysia, Singapore, Japan, the United States, Taiwan.
