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Rh progress, and so great has been the advance in marine artillery that the Monitors of 1862, and the subsequent years of the American war, would be unable to resist the shot from the guns of 1880-'87. The most recent war steamers of England, France, Russia, and Italy are claimed to be as great an improvement upon the American Monitors as were those vessels upon their wooden predecessors.