Dresser had lost several of his rifled pieces, three caissons and eighteen horses.
Scarcely taking time to unlimber, he was loading and sighting his pieces before the caissons had turned, and in an instant was tossing shell from twenty-four pound howitzers into the compact and advancing Rebel ranks.
Some of our men was killed when the caissons blew up.
We had no idea what caissons were; but they blew up--that was enough for us.
The blowpipes never slept, night and day the sand streamed from below, and Healey's caissons sank like armed cruisers foot by foot toward the bed-rock.
But the Peace River bridge was caught in the air, and Healey's great caissons gave way to piles, and the cost came down from a hundred to seventy-five thousand dollars.
Captain dashes off to our left, followed by his battery--the thunderous rumble ofcaissons and gun-carriages dying away as they pass out of our sight over a swell of land.
On the 3d and 4th we marched twenty miles each day; abandoned wagons, forges, guns, and caissons were seen quite frequently.
The hill was strewed with small arms, and cannon and caissons met our view wherever we passed.
Crossing the river, he came upon the pike, crowded with men and cannon, caissons and ambulances, wagons and pack animals.
The ambulances bore their load, the empty ammunition and commissary wagons carried as many as they might, the caissons were overlaid with moaning men, the mounted officers took men up behind them.
The army withdrew that night, and the guns, without caissons or limber-boxes, were abandoned to the enemy, the loss of life it would have cost to withdraw them being considered worth more than the guns.
The caissons were in line behind the pieces, and from them powder and grape and canister travelled to the fighting guns.
The three sets of caissons once being in their places, and the stone piers built on top of them, people at last began to see the beginning of the Forth Bridge.
Eight more caissons were built, four for each side of the river, and these were sunk on to beds of firm clay, some of them being as much as seventy feet below the surface of the water.
Six of these guns I turned over with caissons complete; eleven were hauled off the field and appropriated by an officer of high rank--General Hazen.
No guns or caissons should be taken with less than eight horses.
These caissons were provided for their sinkage with temporary dams of masonry closing the opening of the lock at the extremities of each caisson, enabling the gates to be subsequently erected under their shelter.
Compressed air in bottomless caissons has been increasingly employed in recent years for carrying down the subaqueous foundations of river quay walls, through alluvial deposits, to a solid stratum.
The junctions between the foundations of the heads and the adjacent foundations were effected by small movablecaissons carried down in recesses provided in the buried caissons.
A sliding or rolling caisson is occasionally placed across each end of a lock in place of a pair of dock gates, being Caissonsdrawn back into a recess at the side for opening docks.
Our lawn has turned into a gun park with limbers and caissons elbowing each other under our very eaves.
One lies awake and listens, it seems for hours, to the absolutely incessant rattle of carts, trucks, caissons and gun carriages passing along the road, until it seems as if the whole French Army must be on the move.
It was increasingly evident every minute, too, that trucks that carry three tons, and six-inch mortars, and heavy caissons were not meant to pass over any piece of mended road that had its bottom two or three feet below the surface.
Ditched trucks and caissons were the casualties of the charge of our transport, which was no less furious in spirit than that of our infantry.
Memories of weary men prone on the earth, or lying on caissons or gun limbers, go hand in hand with memories of our bursts of "speed" when orders summoned weariness to another impulse of effort.
The number of guns and ammunition-caissons and the length of a column of divisional transport were calculable quantities.
They were caissons which were being exploded that we might no longer be encumbered with them, as the march became each day more painful.
Down a road, where we saw five abandoned French caissons mired in a field, we had another experience with a most disconcerting sign.
But every freight car filled with food and ammunition was sealed and even on the flat cars there was not room to stand between the caissons and guns.
We saw the drivers, each with a carbine slung over his shoulders, astride the straining horses, while the heavy caissons and guns rumbled behind.
And, two by two, the drivers led them clanking off into the night, with the gun crews following on foot, with the caissons and cannon let standing in the snow.
They went up to the top of the hill, past dead men and horses, and much wreckage of caissons and gun wheels.
The horses belonging to the guns and caissons were taken out, and fifty men supplied their places.
The first six cannon and the first six caissons passed without a single shot from the fortress.
Here the caissons are laid end to end with each other, along the whole curve of the wall, and the masonry is built on the top of them within a floating cofferdam of very ingenious construction.
These caissons are brought to the site of the proposed pier, and are there sunk.
Our guns and caissons were got ashore at once, the men and horses remaining on board until next morning, when we disembarked, and took up our line of march for the camping ground, passing through several of the principal streets.
Had one very steep and bad hill to ascend, and found it necessary to double our teams; but it was some time ere all the guns and caissons were well at the top.
No word of complaint, not a murmur was heard, but with a silence only broken by the heavy tread of our horses, and the creaking and rattling of the caissons and gun carriages, we passed slowly forward.
For the first few miles the road was quite hilly, and one of the Kentucky battery's caissons was capsized over a bank, and had to be left behind.
A halt was made, and the order given to transfer all extra baggage from the pieces and caissons to the baggage wagons, and be prepared for action.
In going down a steep pitch, the reach of the forge was broken, and a little further on, two caissons broke down.
The caissons for the shafts are of structural steel, with double walls, filled between with concrete, including a cross-wall between and parallel to the tunnels.
The battery took on board two guns and a wagon captured and brought off in place of two caissons and a wagon left behind, and also brought off twenty horses and one mule captured.
He was unable to carry off any of the heavy guns, but succeeded in shipping the guns of Bankhead's field-battery, leaving their limbers and caissons behind.
He would have understood, too, from the order to leave his caissons behind, that the stand beyond the stream was not meant to be of long duration.
The men were weary and half-starved after three days of fighting and marching, and the horses, worn out with dragging the guns and caissons over well-nigh impassable roads, were famishing for water.
Again and again caissons were exploded and added to the terrible list of casualties.
The same was true of the men bringing ammunition from the caissons in the depression beneath us.
The caissons are usually in less numbers than the guns, there being two caissons behind four guns, or one caisson behind two guns.
The guns and caissons at the first uncritical glance looked like junk, but a second look revealed the error.
The German field artillery frequently place their caissons at a distance of two hundred yards behind the guns, there being no limbers or caissons with the guns.
No limbers or caissons had been with the guns, but a caisson had been placed in a field about two hundred yards behind, and men ran up and down across the field carrying ammunition in wicker baskets, each of which holds three shells.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "caissons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
