Throughout the war to this writing, not one of his great first-class battleships has fired a shot, with the exception of the Queen Elizabeth, which took part in the bombardment of the Dardanelles forts.
Too much time elapsed between the preparatory bombardment and the landing.
The following account of the bombardment of Mogador by the French, written at the period by an English Resident may be of interest at the present time.
Alas, how were all these Passover, Tabernacle and wedding festivals, these happy and joyous days of the Jewish society of Mogador, changed on the bombardment of that city!
The British Consul and his wife, and Mr. and Mrs. Robertson, with others, were obliged to remain in the town during the bombardment on account of their liabilities to the Emperor.
Chapter V The Bombardment Of Antwerp There was something typically British in the way those Englishmen went about the defense of Antwerp.
Clog dancing and cognac helped to get me from The Hague back into Antwerp in time for its bombardment and capture by the German forces under General von Beseler.
It was two days after the second bombardment of Termonde--at 7 A.
Before and during the bombardment I am quite certain that the Germans intended to frighten, rather than injure, non-combatants.
This was later known as the second German bombardment and occupation of Termonde.
Two days before thebombardment Gibson went to the Royal Palace at Antwerp where General de Guise and his staff were in conference.
In the Royal Belgian Palace there happened a few hours before the bombardment an incident revealing the simplicity and kindliness of King Albert's character.
Chapter II The Second Bombardment Of Termonde September 15th was our day with Henry Verhagen, the tall gray alderman of the town that was once Termonde.
The worst fire of the entire bombardment was concentrated during these moments; the racket was stupendous.
On the second night of the Antwerp bombardment the Americans who had not left the city were gathered in the almost deserted Queen's Hotel along the water front.
Their advance was so gradual that, although I did not leave Antwerp until the bombardment was over, I caught up with the army of refugees before Roosendaal, just across the Dutch border.
For almost a week now the strong Liège fortresses had withstood the fierce bombardment of the great German guns.
Day and night the bombardment of the fort had continued.
These terrible privations having failed to break the indomitable spirit of the besieged, bombardment had, before the construction of these lines, been resorted to.
Owing to the Destruction of the Remainder of the edition during the Bombardment of the Philippine ports by Dewey, only about 300 copies of the work were distributed.
One morning, after an unusually intense bombardment of a wood called the Bois Carré, I found many dead birds; killed either by direct hits or by the concussion of the heavy shells.
After the bombardment ceased, upon going up into the mow to inspect the damage, I found them.
There had been an intense bombardment going on up that way and we soon learned the cause from straggling wounded whom we met coming along the road.
The bombardment had begun in earnest now, and shells were fairly pouring over our heads.
There had been four wounded men there, but two of them, badly hurt, were so terrified at the bombardment that they had crawled away in the night.
The bombardment of the church must have been terrific, for even the heavy pillars of the aisle had been snapped across.
The only difficulty with some of them was to induce them to stop in bed, and it is a fact that on the night of our bombardment I met one of them walking downstairs, leaning on a dresser's arm, ten days after the operation.
The bombardment was increasing in violence, and large numbers of incendiary shells were being used, whilst in addition the houses set on fire during the night were now beginning to blaze.
It was plain that the bombardment was beginning again, and that we must see to our business without any delay.
Bombardment was mostly to the east to-day, but no telling when it may shift.
Belgrade, Bombardment of, Vow made by the Servians at, 68.
The molecularbombardment of the piston by steam or the gases of combustion runs his engines and propels his cars.
The external bombardment by the cannon ball is, therefore, preceded by an internal bombardment on the cannon ball by the molecules of the hot gases, whose speed is about as great as the speed of the projectile that they propel.
The luminous watch dials consist of a coating of zinc sulfide under continual bombardmentby the radium projectiles.
But the bombardment of it by field-artillery proved quite ineffective.
The effect of this bombardment of only six days' duration was decisive.
General Faidherbe hoped to take the town by further encompassing it, without exposing it to a bombardment followed by a storm.
General von Kameke therefore decided to await the result of a heavy bombardment before resorting to a regular attack.
Towards the close of the day the French, after a continuous but ineffective bombardment from eight batteries, took possession of the town, but did not make any further advance.
A bombardment by field-artillery had already proved perfectly ineffectual.
Much as damage to this German city was to be regretted, since the Prelate was not empowered to negotiate the bombardment was continued through the night of the 25th, when it reached its height.
The erection of the batteries for the bombardment in the dark, wet nights was attended with great difficulties.
Again at the bombardment and capture of Bagamoyo by the Fleet, it seemed to the Hun that wherever the German commander went, to this trench or to that observation post, our 6-inch shells would follow him.
When I saw him, he was still very indignant at a bombardment of the Jardin des Plantes by the German besiegers.
I suggested that the shells might have fallen in the place by accident; but he maintained that it was not the case, and that the bombardment was intentional.
He expostulated, gesticulated, and fumed, but I kept up the bombardment until he had to surrender.
The effect of allowing it to fall into German hands, with all its canal and harbour facilities, would have been to give new life to the submarine war, to make the bombardment and ultimately the invasion of the English coast possible.
Here is one incident that helped to determine a favourable verdict: A forward post held by the Portuguese was subjected to a furious bombardment late one afternoon by the Germans.
It was the greatest artillery bombardment in history up to that date, though afterwards so eclipsed by the records of the Somme, the Ancre and of Messines as to be remembered as a mere splutter.
On the 23rd of September a regular bombardment of the whole German line facing the British line began.
Then there was a preliminary bombardment of the German positions from the sea to beyond the Somme, and, amidst many feint attacks, the British and the French offensive north and south of the Somme was launched.
Yesterday morning the Germans renewed their bombardment of the positions at Radziwillow, where the fine Russian trench is practically impregnable, and has already cost them huge losses in their attempts to assault it.
As the bombardment of open towns constitutes without doubt a violation of international law, we thought it necessary to go to Rheims, which was for eighty days bombarded by the Germans.
Dover forts drive off two German submarines; bombardmentof the Dardanelles by the allied fleets continues.
The bombardment has continued since the 7th of October, the day of our visit; the number of the victims, therefore, must now be very considerable.
For a time this officer subjected the town to a periodical bombardment which inflicted much damage, and at the end of 1832 the citadel itself was besieged by a French army.
To screen the city from bombardment they would have to be carried 3 m.
The Commandant, by name Krama, of the Kdr, forced men and youths, and even women, to fill up the holes made by the bombardment during the action.
The people of the city itself had to be helped to escape before the bombardment commenced.
The bravest man is likely to get "jumpy," if he only faces up to a bombardment occasionally.
It was many a day before the midnight bombardmentceased to be the town-talk.
A few minutes later, Garibaldi himself rode up in a wrathful mood, and while he was renewing his protests, a shell fell close by him, thrown from a ship which re-opened the bombardment on its own account.
The Austrian bombardment was begun by the Irish General, Nugent-Lavall, who, dying in the midst of it, left all his fortune to the heroic city which he was attacking.
After the beginning of July, an incessant bombardment was directed against the city itself.
Persano reached Lissa on the morning of the 18th of July, and began a tremendous bombardment of the forts, which, though answered with the highest spirit by the Austrians, did most deadly damage to their batteries.
The bombardment was renewed, but it was not well conducted.
Lord Palmerston denounced the bombardment and its attendant horrors as 'unworthy of our time and of our civilisation.
Now she has given her name to a battle--to different battles--that began with the great bombardment of October a year ago, and each day since then have continued.
The bombardmenthad begun systematically about the middle of the month, all up and down the Western Front.
He didn't put it quite so baldly as that, but he waffled about the urgent necessity of observing the greatest exactitude, especially when the Gunners proceeded from bombardment to barrage.
For my part, I confess quite frankly that I do not enjoy an intensive bombardmentin the least.
At six o'clock in the morning of September 7 I heard the roar of the commencing bombardment from Opanetz in the north, and it quickly worked round, until the two Grivitza redoubts due east of Plevna were involved.
One unpleasant result of the bombardment was that Stracey and I had nothing to eat all night, as all the butchers and bakers in Widdin were down in their cellars, and no amount of money would induce them to come out.
Skirmishes were always going on between the outposts, and the intermittent bombardment claimed a daily quota of victims, a considerable proportion of whom were sent to me for treatment.
All that May the bombardment of Widdin was continued at irregular intervals; but there were occasionally several successive days on which there was no firing, and at these times life in Widdin was inconceivably dull.
Most of the ordinary residents of Kalafat had already left the place, fearing that the bombardment of the town by the Widdin batteries was imminent, and the houses were filled with Roumanian officers and men.
