General De la Rey had attacked and captured an armoured train at Kraaipan.
On the 15th of November he engaged an armoured train, capturing a hundred of the British troops.
An armoured train, trying to run back to Mafeking, had been captured by the Boers.
A similar protection for the men operating the guns on the trucks was not then, apparently, considered necessary; but we have here what was clearly the germ of the "armoured train.
The garrison of an armoured train consisted of an Infantry escort and Royal Artillery and Royal Engineer detachments.
Once despatched to a particular section of the line, an armoured train was to be under the control of the General or other officer commanding that section.
On the 14th the enemy were engaged by the garrison, with an armoured train supporting, and were driven back with some loss.
He did not see any way of taking the place; many of his men had fallen, and an armoured train with a search-light was approaching from Brugspruit.
We had chanced this time upon an armoured train, and the trucks which bore the cannon had remained uninjured.
There was no Laocoon to warn the Boers, and they rushed at what they thought was anarmoured train in trouble.
It showed the capture of an armoured train on the railway between Kimberley and Mafeking.
Meanwhile an armoured train, escorted by the mounted company of the Loyal North Lancashire, had been despatched up the line to reconnoitre, and came under artillery fire from the Boers on Graspan.
Rather by good luck than good management there happened to be an armoured train lying at the railway station, and into it, with a promptitude that augured well for his popularity, the Colonel ordered a number of his men.
The Boers, by way of preliminary, had been cutting telegraph wires, tearing up rails, blowing up culverts, and had taken possession of an armoured train at Kraaipan.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "armoured train" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
