For a short time the batteries resisted, but the attack being well managed the Americans gave way, and, having set fire to the frigate, fled in all directions.
He had directed the guns of the batteries to open on the American squadron, but ineffectually, as they were too far off.
By the 20th of May, several fascine batteries had been erected, one of which mounted five forty-pounders.
The better to protect her from capture her guns were taken out and, at some distance below Hampden, batteries or earthworks were erected, in which all the guns of the frigate were placed.
To cut off the retreat of the British squadron, several batteries had been erected by the Americans, and these, now manned by the crews of the Baltimore flotilla, opened fire upon Captain Gordon and his prizes.
The batteries are nothing extraordinary, except in strength," he told Jack, "and as near as I can make out the instrument is like any other.
Against the dimness he could just make out the gleaming of batteries in rows.
Surreptitiously he applied the slender cords of his pocket ammeter to the zinc and carbon of the dead batteries concerning whose freshness he and his assistant had argued.
The men all glanced uneasily at one another, except Simmons, who stared at his batteries stolidly.
In fifteen minutes, by rapid substitutions of batteries to weaken or strengthen the sending current, he had redetermined his previous data.
In those days batteries were troublesome to care for, houses were not wired when built, and no one had learned the art of concealing the wires neatly.
Speaking of chores, of course the most insistent chore was to keep the storage batteries stored.
The particular chore which you boys must perform is to see that the voltage of these batteries is maintained at about 1.
The small batteries necessarily have a short life and must be replaced quite frequently.
This is said to be uninjured by being emptied out and left idle, as our batteries must be for a large part of the year.
Well, it is time that we learned about the nature of batteries," said I, "if you boys are going to have two storagebatteries to care for.
The Island Battery was by this time crippled, and the townbatteries that commanded the interior of the harbor were nearly destroyed.
In the Grand and Island batteries there were sixty heavy pieces more.
At the same time the English batteries on the land side were pushing their work of destruction with relentless industry, and walls and bastions crumbled under their fire.
He did not mean to enter till all the batteries which had made the attempt impracticable, including the Circular Battery, which was the most formidable of all, had been silenced or crippled by the army, and by the army alone.
Between the seventeenth and twentieth of September effective batteries under Buonaparte's command forced the enemy's frigates to withdraw from the neighborhood of La Seyne on the inner bay.
Under Bonaparte's personal supervision, and therefore with miraculous speed, the French batteries were placed and began an answering thunder.
In a few moments the deed was accomplished, the bridge was won, the batteries were silenced, and the enemy was in full retreat.
The left wing also had some cavalry and, beyond the Alle, batteries were brought into action to cover it.
Bonaparte's batteries and the levelling of his trench work.
But, upon inspection, it appears that this "Maryland Line" was formed of those regiments and battalions and batteries previously enumerated.
Inside were a delicate arrangement of film on a continuous spool so that the scene played over and over again, and a combination of batteries and bulbs to project the scene on the ball's surface.
It must have been anticipated by Napoleon, that he might be soon deprived of the cover of the batteries of the isle of Aix.
The most determined and sustained fire was directed upon them from the French batteriesalong the whole line.
And as though the batteries opposite divined the catastrophe, they redoubled their fire, sending down a torrent of shells.
They had installed some of their batteries on the banks of the Marne in order to attempt a new resistance.
Rectangles of overturned earth marked the situation of the enemy's batteries before their retreat.
A cannon had just been discharged but a few feet away from him, and not till then did he realize that two batteries had been installed in the park.
The enclosed space answered both for batteries and sleeping quarters.
They came to a halt before a lieutenant-colonel who received them like an engineer exhibiting his workshops, like a naval officer showing off the batteries and turrets of his battleships.
Three mountain batteries massed under Major Dacres Cunningham also took a conspicuous part in the fight, whilst three Maxim guns also did their share towards defeating the enemy.
In fact, the divorce batteries are here open again.
They trusted to their batteries on land, and believed their rocks to be impregnable.
So will you open yourself to his great batteries of inner power.
A thousand fell where Kemper led; A thousand died where Garnett bled: In blinding flame and strangling smoke The remnant through the batteries broke And crossed the works with Armistead.
The foe himself recoiled aghast, When striking where he strongest lay, We swooped his flanking batteries past, And, braving full their murderous blast, Stormed home the towers of Monterey.
These Tripolitan batteries mounted one hundred and fifteen guns.
Some batteries on our right next the French lines are doing some thundering, and there are more star-shells than usual lighting up the sky on the left.
We have also got more Divisions in it along the same front, and our heavy guns and all our batteries in better positions.
There were also some French batterieshidden behind an embankment.
The batteries of the Union army had moved forward just before dark; and volleys of grape or shell would have made a fearful slaughter among the disordered bodies of the retreating enemy, and they had fled in the utmost confusion.
Our men have two or three batteries on the field, and they are firing at intervals.
What was equally significant, he could change the position of his batteries according to the course of the action.
Third class guns fired stone balls to break and sink ships and defend batteries from assault; such guns included the pedrero, mortar, and bombard (fig.
Gribeauval's artillery came into action at a gallop and smothered enemybatteries with an overpowering volume of fire.
Ruiz was not deceived about what would happen if hostile batteries were able to get closer; in such case, he thought, the enemy "will no doubt succeed in destroying the parapets and dismounting the guns.
Cannon burst in the batteries every day because gunners were ignorant of how the gun was made and what it was meant to do.
With these improvements he could establish small batteries at important points in the battle line, open the fight, and protect the deployment of his columns with light guns.
The French, who fought with conspicuous bravery, were aided by the batteries which they had erected on shore, whereas the British had only their naval armament to rely upon.
He infused new life into the sleepy civic institutions of Alexandria, gave orders for the repair of the age-worn fortifications, and for the erection of new batteries as well as for building factories and schools.
Major Anderson was besieged there by thebatteries of secession, was being starved out, might hold on a month longer, needed help.
Shells of various calibres, whistling and screaming, flew over our heads from German batteriesas well as from our own batteries replying to them.
The nature of our activities carried us through the area of shell fire, among the batteries and sometimes quite close to the trenches.
The mines and big stamp-batteries were protected by us and kept in order by neutral persons under the management of Mr. Alex.
There were naval guns shelling it from different directions, while batteriesof field-pieces pounded away incessantly.
General French had placed his infantry in the centre with three field batteries (fifteen pounders), while his cavalry, with Maxims, encompassed our right and left.
On the 28th--the next day--General Paget pitched his camp near our positions, shelling us with some batteries of field guns till dusk.
The enemy, however, concentrated the fire of a few batteries on us, and our guns were soon silenced.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "batteries" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
