It had not enough artillerists to fight what guns there were.
Guns jolted along the highways with their artilleristssitting at ease.
And again the allied artillerists replied in kind.
Nevertheless, these valiant artillerists took no particular account of these little facts, and felt justly proud when the despatches of a battle returned the number of victims at ten-fold the quantity of projectiles expended.
Boys," he said in his rough, homely way to some bitterly complaining artillerists stalled in the mud, "I promised.
The artillerists stood to their guns until the torrent of French horsemen was about to break upon them, then they ran back to the safety of the nearest English square.
Not less ingenious was the device almost instinctively resorted to by the artillerists for the safety of the gunners when, after the siege batteries opened, the Confederate sharp-shooters began picking off every head that came in sight.
The Fifth Corps was sent to join the army in the field; within a fortnight, a full army corps of able-bodied stragglers followed; the fortifications were completed; ample garrisons of instructed artillerists were provided.
One-third of this force protected the artillerists in completing their batteries and the workmen in digging trenches and erecting blockhouses.
He repeated his demand, and still receiving no answer, he ordered the artillerists to prepare their matches, and at the word "Fire!
And yet they hold out, and these pieces, continually dismounted, are continually renewed; their artillerists only complain of the want of munition, for the waggons no longer dare approach.
The artillerists of the Commune, from Mont-Parnasse to the Buttes Montmartre, which seem awaking, answered as well as they could.
The artillerists of the Porte-Maillot, turning round, beheld in their rear the Versaillese, their neighbours for some ten hours.
The Versaillese deployed their troops and placed six guns in line at about sixty yards from the edifice, thus recklessly exposing their infantry and artillerists to the muskets of the insurgents.
At the ramparts, some artillerists riddled the line of Versailles, and, asking for nothing but bread and iron, stood to their pieces until torn away by shells.
As the dragoons rushed at full tilt, with gleaming swords, along the road, the artillerists leaped upon their pieces and cheered them on.
The infantry regiments were enfeebled by their long exposure, in miserable tents, to the withering heats and drenching rains of a low southern latitude; and the artillerists were without their guns.
To some of the artillerists who were unable to leave their guns, the beverage was carried by this excellent female; and, as may readily be believed, no belle of Orleans, ever met a more gracious reception.
Our artillerists stood to their aimed and loaded guns.
The artillerists were dumfounded when the major complied.
The artillerists were all men of the better class, technically educated and thoroughly loyal.
The garrison at Swinemuende was composed of fifteen hundred coast artillerists and some three hundred marines.
The coast artillerists begged to be allowed to wipe out the mutineers.
One day some artillerists were engaged in their favourite pastime of burning out unexploded lyddite shells, when one of the shells burst, killing three men.
The artillerists profited by the occasion to tumble the damaged gun down a precipice, saying that they had had enough of repairing it.
Montgomery had not proper battering cannon; his mortars were defective; his artillerists unpractised, and the engineer ignorant.
The whole force to garrison the associate forts did not exceed six hundred men, chiefly militia, but they had the veteran, Colonel Lamb of the artillery, with them, and a company of his artillerists was distributed in the two forts.
The battle continued incessantly, by night as well as by day, for the artillerists had found each other's range.
The French artillerists picked up the wounded and sent them back to Rheims to receive nursing and care, and then hurried on to the action whither they were bound when surprised by the Hussars.
Artillerists who have lost their guns are collected.
Soldiers for their guns, officers for their sabres, artillerists to their pieces, teamsters to their horses.
There are several pieces of siege artillery on the top of the hill near the Landing, but there are no artillerists or gunners to serve them.
They have been standing there a week, but there are no artillerists to man them.
Armstrong, followed close by his section, dashed over the bridge and drove the artillerists from the gun.
The artillerists had been shot down; and, in the absence of the American cavalry, Marjoribanks was enabled to recover them.
Orders were dispatched to them to halt, form, and march up, whilst the artillerists were summoned to the howitzer, and the fatigue party to the destruction of the bridge.
As I spoke, one of the artillerists was stooping to the muzzle of the six-pounder, holding in his hand a spherical case-shot.
The artillerists of Santiago had gathered around their guns, silent and waiting orders.
Scouts were galloping across the plain to a point of the woods about half a mile distant, and I could see the artillerists fastening their mules to the howitzer-carriage.
Small cannon and some artillerists came within his reach.
General Butler was mortally wounded; the left of the right wing broken, and the artillerists killed almost to a man.
The artillerists in the centre were mowed down, and the fire was the more galling, as it was directed by an invisible enemy, crouching on the ground, or concealed behind trees.
When it was evident the artillerists were about to fire, anxiety induced her to break silence.
This movement caused the artillerists to suspend their own, and the lugger had fairly come within a mile of the cliffs, ere she lazily turned aside again, and shaped her course once more in the direction of the entrance of the Canal.
The colonello, here, expects some firing, and has his artillerists already at their guns.
But the superior knowledge of projectiles which artillerists have obtained since the extensive introduction of chambers to nearly all descriptions of ordnance, is the clearest proof, were any wanting.
A commission of French chemists and artillerists was appointed by the Government, in the year 1794, to experiment upon the best proportions and constituents of gunpowder for the use of the French service.
The external form of cannon is a question of vital importance, but one which is little understood by artillerists of the present day.
Artillerists seek to effect great range by doubling the weight of the gun, and projectile monsters meet us at all points, to become in every case "monster failures.
The soldiers, who seemed to be actuated by the utmost malevolence, redoubled their efforts to hit the squat Hercules who had bellowed at them and their fellow artillerists from the bridge.
He re-entered the service as a lieutenant of the 2d Artillerists and Engineers Feb.
Jonathan Williams, of Massachusetts, was appointed from Pennsylvania a major of the 2d Artillerists and Engineers Feb.
Thither he marched by land in battle array, having sent all his captured munitions and arms with his artillerists by sea, in the patache.
The magazines were already in their hands, and a desperate effort of Laudonniere's artillerists to recover them, was followed only by their own destruction.
Prompt to the order the combat opened, followed by artillery of the other corps, and ourartillerists measured up to the better metal of the enemy by vigilant work.
So Rodes, who had some artillerists acting as infantry, turned them with some effect upon the troops as they retired.
In fact, the latter represented such a decisive advance that the German artillerists did not hesitate to appropriate their improvements in sundry essential details, and to incorporate them with their own weapons.
The difficulty of hitting a captive balloon has been graphically emphasised, inasmuch as the German artillerists have failed to bring down a solitary balloon.
To enumerate the feats of artillerists on this day would fill a volume.
When about half-way across the open ground I saw the parapet crowded with Mexican artillerists in uniforms of dark blue with crimson facings, each musket in hand, and all aiming, as I believed, at my own person.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "artillerists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
