The arsenals were making preparations for furnishing ammunition and knapsacks; but generally, what little was done in this regard was for local purposes.
By the close of 1861, eight arsenals and four depots had been supplied with materials and machinery, so as to be efficient in producing the various munitions and equipments, the want of which had caused early embarrassment.
Within the limits of the Confederate States the arsenalshad been used only as depots, and no one of them, except that at Fayetteville, North Carolina, had a single machine above the grade of a foot-lathe.
In the arsenals of the Southern States were to be found only arms of the old and rejected models.
After the conversion had been effected, the denuded Southern arsenals were again supplied with about the same number, perhaps slightly augmented, that had formerly been stored there.
He visited his dock-yards and arsenals himself; attended business of every kind; encouraged improvements in every department, and Brazil had begun to assume a most flourishing aspect.
Certainly the outbreak of war found some well-stocked arsenals within the grasp of the rebellion.
In most of our arsenals and armories it is thought to be best to employ unenlisted workmen, by the piece or contract.
Maritime arsenals and depots of naval and military stores on the sea-coast are more particularly exposed to capture and destruction.
On the other hand, Sebastopol and the Russian arsenals of the Euxine were thus safeguarded against any maritime attack except by Turkey.
The Prussian arsenals and military stores at Dantzig and Koenigsberg were placed at the disposal of Diebitsch's successor, General Paskievitch.
That place was one of their arsenals where they've cached guns to be used when Berlin sends the order to strike at the United States from within.
It's one of several arsenals located about the country.
We shall know of this, and throw ourselves on the arsenals and forts here, capturing the stores and batteries.
Even the powder in the government arsenals was exhausted long before noon.
Every available wagon that could be found was pressed into service to transport the powder from the various arsenals to the scene of the proposed destruction.
At Colombia we destroyed immense arsenals and railroad establishments, among which wore forty-three cannon.
Of course, the Secretary would, as now, distribute the funds according to the appropriation bills, and reserve to himself the absolute control and supervision of the larger arsenals and depots of supply.
Japan had gained Kiao-chau; strengthened her influence in China enormously, and was making immense profits by working her arsenals and every plant at full speed making munitions for Russia.
This was increased by the terrific explosions that came from the river and arsenals where warships and military supplies were being destroyed.
Caius Gracchus had intended that arms should be furnished by the government, that a special department should be constituted to take charge of the arsenals and to see to the distribution.
Their docks andarsenals were destroyed, and their fortresses were razed.
The government had been defied by the rebellion at every point; its ships driven by hostile guns from Southern ports; its treasures seized; its arsenals occupied, and its abundant arms and munitions appropriated.
It is not confined to dock-yards and arsenals in the Territories and States.
Motecusuma had also two arsenals filled with arms of every description, of which many were ornamented with gold and precious stones.
There were always artificers at work, who continually augmented this store of arms; and the arsenals were under the care of particular personages, who also superintended the works.
There are arsenals also at Saigon and Hai-phong, and an establishment at Diego Suarez.
England had neither navalarsenals nor dockyards, nor any regular establishment of civil or naval officers to provide ships of war, or to man them.
For the unification of China's firearms and munitions of war, China shall adopt firearms of Japanese pattern, and at the same time establish arsenals (with the help of Japan) in different strategic points.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "arsenals" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
