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Example sentences for "artillerymen"

Lexicographically close words:
artilleries; artillerist; artillerists; artillery; artilleryman; artiodactyls; artis; artisan; artisans; artist
  1. Here nearly every man of Captain Maude's two guns was killed or wounded, though he and Lieutenant Maitland remained unhurt, and they frequently had to call for volunteers from the infantry to replace the artillerymen falling around.

  2. The force fell into an ambuscade, and some of the native artillerymen proving traitors, it was compelled to retire with a very heavy loss of officers and men, and three pieces of artillery.

  3. The defenders of the village were chiefly hillmen, who, after firing a straggling volley, fled, leaving the Sikh artillerymen to be slaughtered by the conquerors.

  4. It may have been this respect for the courage of the artillerymen which induced the Confederates to let the few survivors go.

  5. Therefore I will not depict the tortures and individual heroisms of those artillerymen who fell, to die or partly recover.

  6. We saw the artillerymen on the ground and the Sergeant alone left standing.

  7. On the road between the church and the mairie a Sergeant and four artillerymen were sending orders to the battery behind us.

  8. Luis headed the artillerymen and dragged the guns into the street, the roll of their wheels on the pavement giving the signal for a fresh revolution.

  9. O’Higgins again advanced, while the grenadiers under Zapiola charged the centre of the enemy, and sabred his artillerymen at their guns.

  10. Regiments of our troops would then come to Wagner to stand at the parapets all night, while we artillerymen worked the guns to keep down the enemy's fire.

  11. Ours, as did all the regiments massed in the big field, rose and cheered Naglee and the artillerymen as they swept by.

  12. Bill watched the artillerymen in front of him, and the smoke in the enemy's lines, when he was not occupied with something else under his serjeant's quick eye.

  13. The artillerymen fired away so incessantly upon this occasion, that all their powder was consumed, and some of them had their faces and hands burnt.

  14. Allahabad had revolted in May, and the English garrison now consisted mainly of a few artillerymen between fifty and seventy years of age.

  15. The enemy wavered and showed signs of giving way, but one gun manned by Oude artillerymen remained steady.

  16. In this way they gained an entry into the fort which was only held by the turret artillerymen and a few engineers who were surprised and powerless.

  17. The Austrian artillerymen were bayoneted at their guns, before the other troops, whom Beaulieu had removed too far back, in his anxiety to avoid the French battery, could come to their assistance.

  18. The French cuirassiers charged the artillerymen and drove them from their guns; and then rode fiercely on the squares behind.

  19. The muzzle had hardly blazed when two masked batteries opened upon the rise of ground, the four guns, the artillerymen and artillery horses, and upon Stonewall Jackson, Stuart, and the staff.

  20. The artillerymen took the air from the infantry.

  21. Going up, the artillerymen must drag with the horses at gun and caisson; going down the carriages must be held back, else they would slide sideways and go crashing over the embankment.

  22. The unwounded among the blue artillerymen strove to plant a shell within the dusky lane.

  23. The artillerymen had neglected putting up back-boards to their guns, so that, horrible to relate, at each discharge the recoil threw back pieces of burning flesh, bespattering the men and covering them with blood and calcined remains.

  24. From the night of September 7 to the day of assault all the artillerymen in the force, European as well as native, were constantly employed in the batteries and trenches.

  25. The order was given for the guns to be loaded, and quick as thought the European artillerymen placed a quarter charge of powder in each piece.

  26. Orders were given to fire upon the fugitives, and as the artillerymen on the gunboats, from their raised position, could see well over the walls, a deadly fire was opened upon the crowded thoroughfares.

  27. The defence of Santa Maria was quite confined to the outskirts of the town, where the Piedmontese artillerymen were behaving beautifully.

  28. The brave artillerymen very soon disturbed the enemy in the Villa Corsini.

  29. The garrison consists of Portuguese artillerymen to man the forts and a regiment of Infantry of the Line, relieved regularly from Europe.

  30. The red coat of a British marine or the white clothing of a group of Japanese artillerymen lent a few specks of bright colour to the dingy earthworks.

  31. Six men were accordingly chosen besides myself; rather a small storming-party for the object in hand, as they numbered twenty-one artillerymen and an officer, according to my own counting.

  32. The artillerymen kept up a fire at us from the cannon, which consisted of light six-pounders, but owing to our movement they could not get the elevation.

  33. The team drew up with a half-turn, Duchemin and his eight assistants leaped to the ground, and confided their horses to the two artillerymen charged with their care.

  34. To the health of the artillerymen of the Rhine!

  35. He was carried in on a board, by several artillerymen and armed citizens.

  36. The artillerymen vied with one another in haste to charge their pieces.

  37. Mantua, extraordinary to relate, was defended by only three hundred artillerymen and a handful of hussars.

  38. His young Queen, who was frequently seen on the ramparts encouraging the artillerymen at their guns, had probably much to do with his virile resolution.

  39. Stephen, turning red as several of McDunn's artillerymen began to laugh.

  40. The troops flew to their arms, the artillerymen to their guns.

  41. On they came in overwhelming numbers, the artillerymen in the plain firing over their heads, while the British guns began blazing away with canister, sending destruction amid their ranks.

  42. One of the two guns in the fort had burst, killing three artillerymen and wounding others.

  43. Numbers of the native artillerymen were cut down at their guns, others fled towards the infantry, who were hastening to their rescue.

  44. The garrison replied to it with spirit, the two guns being worked by the artillerymen with great rapidity.

  45. On hearing of artillerymen stationed in the neighborhood with lighted fuses in hand, Gildas was overwhelmed with a fresh flood of misgivings.

  46. Artillerymen are posted in front of the Gymnasium with their fuses lighted.

  47. A dozen artillerymen were pushing a mitrailleuse up behind the overturned wagon.

  48. The officer on the ladder was motioning to the group of officers below; already the artillerymen were running the three cannon forward to the port-holes that had been pierced in the park wall.

  49. The artillerymen looked at her in surprise.

  50. Artillerymen were spiking their guns, some ran them into the river, some hammered the mitrailleuses out of shape with pickaxes.

  51. On the terrace the artillerymen were sponging the blood from the breech of their gatling where some wretch's brains had been spattered by a shell-fragment.


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