The Americans being nearest, reached it first, and formed behind a hedge fence which extended along a slope in front of the house; whence, being chiefly armed with rifles, they opened a destructive fire.
The troops, in embarking, would be exposed to a destructive fire.
A Mexican fieldpiece, covered by a breastwork, raked the causeway from end to end, while from the heights of Chapultepec cannon of large calibre poured down a destructive fire.
Assailed in front and flank by a destructive fire, the Pennsylvanians were rapidly borne back.
The Confederates fired from the windows; but the assailants concentrated a destructive fire upon it, and then rushed in at the doors.
Barton, of the Forty-eighth New York Regiment, had marched directly to the Coosahatchie and poured a destructive fire into a train that was filled with Confederate soldiers coming from Savannah to the assistance of General Walker.
They moved forward as rapidly and regularly as the nature of the ground would admit, under a destructive fire of artillery and musketry, till they carried the first line of intrenchments.
Austro-Hungarian regiments in hand-to-hand encounters repulsed several Russian divisions whose storming waves, broken by destructive fire, had pushed forward as far as the Austrian position.
Between the Aisne and the Oise French artillery carried out a destructive fire on the German positions in the region of Quennevières.
Destructive fire in Philadelphia, destroyed 52 buildings; said to have been the greatest fire ever known in Philadelphia.
A destructive fire at Montreal laid waste a considerable portion of the city.
A destructive fire occurred at Canton, China, by which more than 1,400 houses were burnt.
As soon as the infantry was thus hastily got together, the guns advanced to a more favourable position, and kept up a destructive fire.
We accordingly halted on the brow of the ridge, while they kept up an incessant fire, both from their guns and infantry, but which, considering its extent and duration, was not by any means a destructive fire.
The two kept up a destructive fire, until Porter got three long guns out of the cabin-windows, and drove the enemy away.
Seeing this, the Americans swarmed into the rigging of their own ship, and from that elevated station poured down a destructive fire of hand-grenades upon the decks of the enemy.
But the flanks of the columns remained exposed to a destructive fire, from every point adapted to serve as coverts.
Captain Church, who was acting as aid to Winslow, at the head of a volunteer party, about this time dashed through the fort, and reached the swamp in the rear, where he poured a destructive fire on the rear of a party of the enemy.
At Quatre Bras, a French infantry line, advancing, repulsed a charge of the Brunswicker Lancers under the Duke of Brunswick, by receiving it in steadiness and good order, and then pouring in a destructive fire.
They soon rallied and returned to the attack, and were again assailed by a destructive fire in front and on both flanks, and they shrunk back in dismay.
The enemy's left was brought forward in anticipation of the attack, and a destructive fire of grape shot was opened on the British; yet, encouraged by the example of Sir John Malcolm and Lieut.
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