When the colonel commanding the Artillery Company ventured to disobey his orders during the recent riots Combe was justly indignant.
In anticipation of some further outbreak he had already massed troops in Drapers' Hall Gardens and at the Royal Exchange, whilst he had given orders to Colonel le Mesurier to hold the Artillery Company in readiness in the Artillery House.
Scarcely was this done before riots again broke out, and on the 20th August the mayor (Paul le Mesurier) had to send for the Honourable Artillery Company for the protection of houses where recruits were being enlisted for the army.
The whole city was now, and had been for some time, so split up into factions that even a vote of thanks to the Artillery Company for striving to keep order was with difficulty passed.
In Broad Street the Artillery Company and the London Association were ordered to fire on the mob, and several were killed.
The assistance of the Artillery Company had to be called in, and they remained on duty all night.
The terrible fire of this artillery was supplemented by continued, but desultory infantry attacks.
Lewis Wallace's batteries beyond the timber to the northwest, and a battery with Sherman in the same direction, joined in the artillery combat.
Sigel's superiority in artillery gave him an advantage in a desultory combat of some hours.
Colonel Veatch then reported to Hurlbut, and formed part of his line of defence in support of the reserve artillery at the close of the day.
Our cavalry drove them back upon their artillery and infantry, killing many and bringing ten prisoners (all of the First Alabama Cavalry), whom I send you.
Being relieved by General Nelson, he formed his line with its left near the reserve artilleryand the right near McClernand.
Infantry and artillery face to face fired at each other, with occasional intermissions, nearly six hours.
Ten included General Trudeau's command of ten companies of heavy artilleryand the Southern Guards who acted as heavy artillery.
I directed the artillery officers, before the boats left, to make an effort to get their tents on board.
The engineers had such success in repairing the road, and the artillery in conducting the pieces, that all arrived in good order about sunset of the 12th.
It names also only seven artillery companies, while the Nashville Patriot's account and the memorandum on the manuscript plan of the intrenchments name eight.
On the other hand, it is practically immune from artillery or rifle fire from the land, especially when flying at a fair altitude.
The range of the mysterious artillery employed by the Martians was unknown to us.
This was impossible, but many, getting an impetus by a swift run in the denser portion of the atmosphere beneath, succeeded in rising so high that they could discharge their electric artillery with considerable effect.
Madly we rushed upward through the vast curtain and continued our flight to a great elevation, far beyond the reach of the awful artillery of the enemy.
So they were disbanded, and retreated from the town, leaving some of their artillery on the field.
Vigorously the troops pummelled the strong town with what artillery they had, but a siege can not be prosecuted without provisions and other supplies, and the King left them to get along without any support.
The town was plied by the artillery for several days, and after a breach was made Jeanne ordered an assault, herself leading with standard in hand.
The next morning the artillery was placed and Alencon wondered audibly at Jeanne's expertness in laying the guns.
He thought that the artillery should continue the bombardment before the attack should be made, and was therefore reluctant to follow.
How the cattle and so great a company of men-at-arms were to be ferried across under the artillery of the English, who held the bridge and the strong keep of Les Tourelles which guarded passage at this point, was a problem.
The enemy was forced to make a shameful retreat, being completely routed, abandoning theirartillery and supplies.
When I see a place I know at once where the artillery should be placed.
At two o'clock in the afternoon the trumpet sounded the call, and the roar and rebound of cannon began, the artillery plying the boulevard or earthwork which protected the Gate of St. Honore.
The English too used theirartillery with telling effect.
Seeing that he could not escape without some fighting he posted his advance guard with the wagons and artillery behind some strong hedges which would cover their front from the French cavalry.
A month was wasted in artillery play, and an assault resulted only in loss of men.
The firing now became very heavy; the artillery bellowed and the guns roared in answer.
A supply of rifles had been received from Canton or Shanghai, and a few pieces of artillery had also arrived.
The artillery had been cowed by Major Gordon's vigor, but its efficiency remained more doubtful than could be satisfactory to the general responsible for its condition, and also relying upon it as the most potent arm of his force.
Undismayed by this reverse Major Gordon collected all his troops and artillery from the other stockades, and resolved to attack the Low Mun position with his whole force.
Attacked by artillery and foot in the market-place they were almost annihilated, and the great Chinese attack on Ningpo resulted in a fiasco.
On May 4 the victorious force appeared before Quinsan, a place of considerable strength and possessing a formidable artillery directed by a European.
This was on July 25, and the expedition which had been decided upon against Wokong had consequently to set out the following morning without a singleartillery officer.
The flank of the advance being thus protected, the attack on Tangku itself began with a cannonade from thirty- six pieces of the best artillery of that age.
They stood their ground for some time in face of the rifle and artilleryfire opened upon them, and then they kept up a sort of running fight for three miles as they were pursued by the English.
The change was not acceptable, however, to the force itself; and the artillery in particular refused to obey orders, and threatened to shoot their officers.
The successful defense of Taiyuen, where artillery is said to have been used for the first time, A.
The attack was to be launched at dawn and was to be carried out under an artillery barrage which, after delaying six minutes on the opening line, was to move at the rate of 100 yards in four minutes.
Orders were sent to Companies as quickly as possible, and we moved off again in artillery formation, keeping direction with our compasses.
For open warfare we practised mostly the attack, beginning with artillery formation.
The Artillery barrage was to move at the rate of 100 yards in four minutes, making long pauses after each objective had been gained in order to allow time for the rear troops to continue the advance.
Several casualties were caused now by our own artillery firing short, one shell, which luckily was a "dud," burying itself in the side of the embankment amongst a group of men.
The ultimate capture of the Hill necessitated nearly two months' artillery preparation and the employment at intervals of two Brigades.
There was some fog at first, and this in the early stages of the battle, combined with smoke from a screen put down by the Artillery to hide the Tanks, made direction somewhat difficult.
This Company advanced in Artillery formation as soon as the machine guns ceased firing, about 15 minutes after Zero, and reached these trenches without accident.
The covering Artillery consisted of three groups of heavy Artillery under the Corps Commander, and one group of Divisional Artillery (six Brigades of 18-pounders, and one Brigade of 4.
The Council sent six ships to fetch away the artillery and ammunition from Berwick and Holy Isle, and again represented to Charles the necessity of his presence in London.
He had planted his heavy artillery on an eminence near Holyrood; but whilst the majority of the leaders were attending a sermon, the French garrison attacked the battery, and drove the Reformers back into the city with great slaughter.
Having no orders, however, to do anything but attack Guienne, he refused to move a foot for the reduction of Navarre, and demanded afresh the supplies of artillery and horse which had been guaranteed for the former enterprise.
Expecting that now some attack would soon be made upon them, they marched into Norwich to seize on all the artillery and ammunition they could, and carry it to their camp.
In four days, such was the absence of preparation, such the public paralysis, that Hertford was permitted to land his troops and his artillery without the sight of a single soldier.
They left the fortified cities, making no attempt except against Hesdin, which they soon quitted, finding their artillery not of weight enough.
Warwick was seen everywhere encouraging, ordering, and ranking his men afresh; while the artillery from the height, directed over the heads of their own regiments, mowed down the assailing Scots.
The moment appeared to him favourable for extending his own territory and power, and he appeared at the head of a splendid army of thirty thousand men, with a great train of artillery and camp supplies.
An Officer of artillery at the siege of Toulon, and appointed General of Brigade.
Throughout the whole of the 2d of June, a noise was heard, resembling that of two armies engaged, when the discharges of artillery and musketry are very brisk.
James Fitzmaurice declared that help was coming from Spain, swore on a book that Sir Edmund Butler was heartily on his side, and boasted that he could take the artillery at Kinsale when he pleased.
Without artillery the rebels could hardly take a well-defended walled town, and they could not keep the field long enough to starve out such a good soldier as Collyer.
Sidney had no artillery heavy enough to breach the main walls, but shattered the upper works, and ultimately won the courtyard and barbican by assault.
The terror of his name and the knowledge that artillery was behind did all that was necessary, but he complained that nothing was done unless he did it himself, and that Sir Thomas Roe Fitzgerald was particularly useless.
He ordered some pieces of artillery to be brought up to defend the pass, and some troops to form and defend the pieces.
The artillery was too distant to be brought up readily, so that there was but little opposition given here.
The Convention, the revolutionary government, promoted Napoleon to the rank of brigadier-general, and gave him the command of the artillerytrain at Toulon.
On my weary way I was overtaken by a young French artillery officer, who walked with me until we came upon an empty gharrie, and was eloquent upon the miseries of Saigon.
A large force of infantry andartillery is always in barracks here, but it is a most sickly station.
He surprised the Dutch garrison of Selangor by night, routed it, and captured all its heavy artillery and ammunition, but was afterward compelled to restore his plunder, and acknowledge himself a vassal of the Dutch East India Company.
And a timed artillery speaks full-mouthed on a stuttering feeble reduced to nought.
Now is it red artillery and white steel; Till on a day will ring the victor's boast, That 'tis Thy chosen towers uppermost, Where Thy rejected grovels under heel.
We let the first divisions of artillery and cavalry come right across on to our guns--they were literally destroyed.
The infantry was camped there, and the artillery had descended to Couilly and was mounting the hill on the other side of the Morin--between us and Paris.
From the eastern and western extremities of the plain we could see the artillery fire, but owing to the smoke hanging over the crest of the hill on the horizon, it was impossible to get an idea of the positions of the armies.
And the English artillery has come down from the hill behind you and is crossing the Marne.
Just after we left Esbly I saw first an English officer, standing in his stirrups and signaling across a field, where I discovered a detachment of English artillery going toward the hill.
Both Parke and Wright captured a considerable amount of artillery and some prisoners--Wright about three thousand of them.
At this place he was met by the enemy's cavalry, supported by infantry, and forced to retire, with the loss of hisartillery and trains.
Should the men have to march, all baggage and artillery will be left to run the blockade.
Artillery is very useful when it can be brought into action, but it is a very burdensome luxury where it cannot be used.
The work of laying the bridge, on which to cross the artillery and cavalry, was now begun.
It was necessary to wait until they had dried sufficiently to enable us to move the wagon trains and artillery necessary to the efficiency of an army operating in the enemy's country.
When we got to a point where the artillery could be used with effect, a halt was called, and the battle opened on both sides.
On the 12th Smith was ordered to move at night to White House, not to stop until he reached there, and to take boats at once for City Point, leaving his trains and artillery to move by land.
The enemy was defeated with great slaughter, and the loss of most of his artillery and trains, and the trophies he had captured in the morning.
He would find the country so bare that he would lose his transportation and artillery before reaching Kentucky, and would meet such a force before he got through, that he could not return.
From the Montenegrin lines now went a small fleet of aeroplanes, seeking out the hiding places of the enemy artillery and signaling back the range to the Montenegrin gunners.
The next Austrian move was to be a grand assault under cover of artillery fire.
These, too, supported byartillery and strong bodies of cavalry, came forward in a charge.
The Austrian artillery had now slackened its fire perceptibly, for there was danger of mowing down its own men.
At this distance the fire of the Montenegrin artillery was terribly effective, but the Austrian line did not waver.
Infantry, cavalry and artillery were still passing in dense masses, moving westward.
But the Austrians, by the very weight of numbers, swooped down upon the defenders of the first line trenches in spite of the heavy Montenegrin artillery fire.
Other big guns from the Montenegrin lines took up the action and soon the artillery engagement became general.
Not only must the advance or retirement of troops be supported by artillery thundering from hill to hill, but also the troops must be supported and guided by pilots in the sky.
The fire of modern field-artillery is so deadly that troops cannot advance over terrain swept by these guns without prohibitive losses.
Not only this--the artillery we have is without adequate field organization.
But we should be without the requisite field artillery, and the artillery that we should have would be without the requisite training.
But the long-range French field-artillery soon restored confidence, for it was found that the French field batteries could outrange the German batteries.
To do this this artillery must be on hand, for it cannot be supplied after war is started.
After a terrifically intense artillery preparation which began at midnight and included great quantities of gas-shells, the German infantry rushed forward between 3.
For a month formidable quantities of tanks, storm-troops and batteries of heavy and light artillery were concentrated.
On the morning of July 19 the battalion went gallantly forward over open ground, under violent artillery and machine-gun fire, resolutely supporting the attack on the reinforced enemy positions.
The artillery preparation began about midnight, the hour of attack varying, from west to east, from 1.
On the Marne, French troops, moving eastwards under enemy artillery and machine-gun fire, enlarged their bridgehead on both banks.
Artillery Regiment:= “This regiment gave proof of remarkable ability and audacity in supporting the infantry of the 2nd Division S.
To make the surprise still more effective, it was decided to attack without artillery preparation, it being left to the tanks to make good the deficiency.
At dawn, while the infantry were being taken across the river in boats and on pontoons worked by steel cables, the artillery crossed the bridges.
Artillery Regiment:= “With indefatigable energy and courage this regiment gallantly supported the 2nd Division in the attack of July 18, S.
Hence the attack of May 27 on the Aisne front, which was powerfully organised on the German side owing to the great advantage they possessed in being able to bring up rapidly their heavy artillery from the Somme.
Artillery Regiment:= “Supported the attack by the 2nd Division on July 18, S.
He was nothing more than a sort of a mountain howitzer, likely, because they had no heavy artillery in those days.
Amongst the artillery was an old Roman balista; but this was a place not long to be gazed upon by such as we were.
It was then the fashion to make pieces of artillery of an enormous size.
The wind being contrary, and apparently light, the Carleton alone of the sailing vessels got into action; and although she was supported by a number of rowing gunboats, whose artillery was heavy, the match was unequal.
There comes a red-letter day when she is allowed to ride at half-past seven to the Bornstedter Feld to see the Emperor review a detachment of artillery bound for the Herero War.
The line of waiting guns on the artillery field drawn by funny little rough Siberian ponies, who look very strong and unkempt and are driven by men in khaki, strike the Princess as something very unusual.
The artillery general, Melissimo, lived in a pretty house close to mine, and I enjoyed having him for my neighbour, since he was the best and most obliging of men.
And against them all united did Angus and Margaret dare to turn their poor artillery of persuasion.
It reminded me of nothing so much as of the launching of a ship, and beneath all its tumult of artillerythere thrummed the deep undertone of joy.
British bayonets and abundantartillery were fully matched by American rifles, without a single piece of ordnance.
By morning the sailors had dragged the artillery to the top of the Palisades, and everything was ready for an advance upon the fort.
The baggage and heavy guns were sent back, and on the 31st the column advanced, taking for campaign artillery four light three-pounders and a small howitzer.
He brought his artilleryto bear in a way that scoured the breastwork which flanked the redoubt, and then he attacked.
Instead of the unfinished work which he says he had been led to expect, he found it "a respectable fortress, strongly garrisoned with 700 men, and demanding for its speedy subjection a train of artillery of which he was not master.
His single piece of artillery opened on the fort as soon as the morning fog had dispersed.
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