Behind the houses of the western faubourg, Rincourt established a battery armed with three cannons, which had been taken from the arsenal during the night.
The arsenal contained also a certain supply of hand-grenades and fireworks.
The upper town resounded with the noise of arms, of the excavators going to the works, of guns being taken from the arsenal and mounted in the batteries, and of the repairing of the carriages.
Once, with the screw-firing cross-bows that the workmen at the Arsenal had made for them, the wild Gordon boys broke twenty-seven panes of glass in one of the large warehouses of the Arsenal.
It was in his holidays that the Arsenal was his playground, for on the return from Corfu he was sent to school at Taunton, where you may still see his initials, "C.
In long after years he wrote to one of his nieces about the great building at Woolwich where firearms for the British army are made and stored: "You never, any of you, made a proper use of the Arsenal workmen, as we did.
At six o’clock in the morning Lieutenant Cook, of General Shafter’s staff, entered the city, and all the arms in the arsenalwere turned over to him.
The arsenal of Cavite is being prepared for occupation by United States troops on the arrival of the transports.
Sixteen miles from the sea is the town and arsenal of Cavite, which, projecting as it does from the mainland, forms a most commodious and safe harbour.
The American fleet was yet five miles distant, when from the arsenal came a flame and report; but the missile was not to be seen.
It was vainly urged in reply that the stores of the arsenal were almost valueless, the arms being altered flintlock muskets, and the accouterments out of date.
Leather was tanned, harness made, wagons built, and a little Workshop, established at New Iberia by Governor Moore, became important as an arsenal of construction.
This force numbered thirteen hundred, badly armed; and to equip it exhausted the resources of the little arsenal at New Iberia.
The Governor declined to use his authority to purchase arms, assured as he was on all sides that there was no danger of war, and that the United States arsenal at Baton Rouge, completely in our power, would furnish more than we could need.
In the War Office the artillery was under their control; and in the arsenalcertain galleys, marked C.
Paul rode back from the arsenal slowly that evening; and the nearer home he came, the lower drooped his head, the darker grew his brow.
The arsenal and forts of Kamtchatka being unable to supply the necessary men, stores, &c.
We enjoyed as much liberty as if we had been in the country; and in the market and arsenal we found the same resources as in the best European ports.
Copper cooking-utensils have risen to an enormous price; and most of those which previously existed have been bought up by the arsenal for the manufacture of cartridges.
The Khalifa took this occasion to dismiss from the arsenal a certain Sayed Taher, an uncle of the Mahdi, by whom he had been appointed director.
I also succeeded in getting a situation at the arsenal for one of his Black boys whom he had educated, and who receives pay up to the present time.
The arsenal and dockyard, ammunition stores, magazines, and Government archives must be safeguarded against all eventualities.
The famous Venetian arsenal was the foster-mother of that commerce.
Her army had dwindled to a few undisciplined and inefficient regiments; her arsenal was little employed.
The walls of the fortifications of this city were totally ruined: they are now repaired; and important works necessary in the arsenal itself have been finished.
In the military arsenalthey have wrought diligently to prepare every thing necessary for the defence of the different provinces; and all, from Paraiba of the North to Montevideo, have received the assistance they have requested.
From the arsenal I climbed the hill immediately overlooking it, where there is the convent of San Bento; where, it is said, there is a good library, but it is not accessible to women.
At half-past eight three barges, with the Admiral and Captain Hope of the Alcmena, landed at a corner of the Arsenal at the point where the opening of the secret passage debouched.
On the 12th of January, she took possession of the arsenal at Augusta, containing howitzers, cannon, muskets and large stores of powder, ball and grape.
But the taking the arsenal at Baton Rouge is a different matter.
The arsenalis one of minor importance, yet the stores were kept there for the moral effect, and the garrison was there at the instance of the people of Louisiana.
Arkansas seized the arsenal at Little Rock, containing nine thousand small arms, forty cannon, and a quantity of ammunition.
On the 31st, she took possession of the United States arsenal, post office, and customhouse in Charleston, the arsenal containing seventy thousand stand of arms and other stores.
I regard the seizure by Governor Moore of the United States arsenal as the worst act yet committed in the present revolution.
Adrianople; it was the first city captured by the Turks in Europe (1356), and is now the naval arsenal of Turkey and head-quarters of the Turkish navy.
Plymouth Dock, and established as a naval arsenalby William III.
The royal and imperial palaces, the great library, the university, national gallery and museums, and the arsenal are all near the centre of the city.
Nevertheless, when he had put fifty paces between himself and the buildings of the Arsenal he paused, and turned.
He guessed that the sluggish arm of the Seine which divided the Arsenal from the Ile des Louviers crawled below; but the night was dark, and it was impossible to discern land from water.
As he drew nearer he cast an attentive eye this way and that; nor stayed until a hoarse challenge brought him up when he had come within six horses' lengths of the Arsenal gate.
Biron, whom I count a Huguenot, and who holds the Arsenal in the King's teeth, for another.
Here, in an upper floor, the Governor of the Arsenalhad established his temporary lodging.
There was a rush toward the Residency, and while some of the Afghan soldiers resorted to stone-throwing, others ran for arms to their quarters, and looted the Arsenal in the upper Balla Hissar.
Serpukhov is already occupied by an enemy detachment and Tula with its famous arsenal so indispensable to the army, is in danger.
The Spanish arsenal and the only shipyards in the colony are located here.
The Shipyard andArsenal at Cavite, Philippine Islands opp.
The arsenal was struck by some of the bombs dropped during this raid, shipping in the harbor was bombarded, and one warship badly damaged.
The city had a big arsenal and miscellaneous war plants.
The Zeppelin commander, who directed the bombardment of the thirteenth, was well informed and proceeded straight to the arsenal and naval workshops.
Venice with its arsenal was visited more than once.
Having taken Kragujevatz, where they began restoring the arsenal to working order with feverish haste, the Austro-Germans crossed the Cacak-Kragujevatz road and continued onward.
It is not to be expected that we can be on terms of amity while we make Shanghae the arsenal of the Imperialists, and carry out our intervention on the principle by which it has hitherto been characterized.
Place d’Armes, fronting the Arsenal and the Promenade, where the band plays on Sundays.
Adjoining is the Arsenal de Castigneau, constructed on piles along the bay towards La Seyne, with the bakery, ironworks, and ship-equipment departments.
If the Admiral of the Arsenal had been engaged in the conspiracy, the fact could hardly have escaped the notice of contemporary chroniclers.
State's ducal robes Sit newly on me, and you were appointed Chief of thearsenal ere I came from Rome; So that I recognised you not.
He possessed a large and well-stored arsenalof fact and argument.
