Some idea of it can probably be gained by an examination of the following diagram: It will be seen that a long line of rebel batteries bears upon A, and that one of them was brought up to enfilade the side AB.
If he obtained possession of it he could plant guns which would enfilade Slocum's line and fire directly into our forces below.
Not being able to force his way in front on account of Dwight's position in the railroad cut, Daniel brought artillery to enfilade it, and threw the 32d North Carolina across it.
A battery was brought forward to enfilade Sickles' line on the Emmetsburg road, and under cover of its fire Barksdale carried the position, but was mortally wounded in doing so.
The only thing which could have lost the battle of that day was the abandonment of the position at Hazel Grove, for from this alone was it possible to enfilade Slocum's line.
It overlooked the field, and its possession by the enemy would cut our force in two, enfilade Morrow's and Biddle's brigades, and compel a hasty retreat.
Gaba Tepe itself was a headland in which the Turks had concealed batteries of machine guns to enfilade this landing and other beaches, but which same point had served for weeks as a good target for the warships.
Yes, the Post was undoubtedly strong, for it could enfiladeany attack from German Officers' Trench on the right, and the Turks knew that and attempted none.
When a company of infantry had been forced by enfilade fire to vacate a trench, it was reported that one of their wounded had been left in the trench, which was now absolutely commanded by the enemy's fire.
Destroyers moved close in to Gaba Tepe and to the north of the Australian position, and began an intense shelling of the exposed Turkish trenches, that in some places were open to enfilade fire.
Some of the Portsmouth Battalion occupied a ridge on the left of the gully, on to which the Turks were firing a deadly enfilade and almost rear fire from their centre position.
French and British battleships had moved up on the flanks and were pouring a terrible enfilade fire on the Turks and covering the slopes of Achi Baba with sheets of flame as the shells burst along the position.
These two phrases went hammering in her brain, a complement to that cry which still seemed to reach her senses, although the whole enfilade of reception rooms now stretched their vastness between her and that persistent echo.
He led the way through the large folding doors and thence along the enfilade of gorgeous reception rooms, the corridors, landings and staircase which Lydie herself had traversed just now.
On the left was the long enfilade of reception rooms, with the vast audience chamber and milor's own withdrawing room beyond.
She only wanted to get away, to put the whole enfilade of the next reception rooms between herself and the scene which had just taken place.
It was now possible to enfilade many of the choice positions which for two months had been the snug hiding-places of the enemy.
The trench thus made was within eighty yards of those of the Boers, and owing to its trefoil shape, the troops were able to enfiladeboth the river and northern trenches of the enemy and make them untenable.
Changing front so as to face the enemy, he found advantageous ground for receiving battle, and placed his artillery so as to enfilade the Centreville road on which the enemy's battery was posted.
A reconnoissance in force demonstrated that the place could be carried by storm, but could not be held, since the Confederate gunboats were able (the river being then at high water) to enfilade both the works and the approaches.
But the Confederate artillery gained a position where it could enfiladehis lines, and at the same time he was attacked in the rear by a detachment of dismounted cavalry.
By this manoeuvre a great deal of enfilade fire was brought to bear both from guns and machine-guns.
I, to enfilade machine-gun fire, from which they had considerable casualties, including Majors Mander and Robb.
To this success "B" Company, 6th Machine-gun Battalion, contributed largely by enfilade fire.
Major Majoribanks and his troops could still enfilade the left flank of the Americans from their covert among the thickets on the border of the stream.
The ships opened a fire to enfilade and dislodge them.
Far away on a little hill at the Confederate right Longstreet placed four batteries in such a position that he could enfilade the Federal columns.
Unable to carry the position by assault, the Germans now tried to wipe out the battalion by an enfilade fire from machine guns.
The way open through Gheluvelt and the main road, the enemy rushed up a great force of guns and began shelling the British positions in enfilade right and left.
At the northern end of them were mazes of cross trenches protecting them in case the Germans got across the bridge there and started to enfilade us.
We pushed up, until we got an enfilade fire upon their lines.
Many of these spurs jut out in such a way that if fortified they could enfilade up and downstream.
More than that, the line of trenches was open to enfilade fire from a hidden battery, which did not unmask until the trench was filled with soldiers.
Brigade launched an effective enfilade on the enemy's transport from across the river; the two attacking brigades went in again; the cavalry charged across the Turks' right trenches.
We then realized that General Marshall's Column had joined in, supporting us with enfilade gunfire; we were unable to see their target, and could see nothing of the enemy trenches.
The enfilade fire of this forward-swung portion and the two machine-guns in the crater did a good deal to help cut down the main attack.
Good position, allowing enfilade fire on attack, and with command of farther slopes.
It was the intention of Commodore Foote to silence these batteries, pass by, and take a position where he could enfilade the fort with broadsides.
The Third Canadian Division during the Courcelette operation was working upon the left flank of the Second, as it attacked the village, protecting it from enfilade attack.
As that big oblong crowd of Turks showed their left flank to Baikie's nine batteries they were swept in enfilade by shrapnel.
From the moment the Turks drove the French out of the "Haricot" the enfilade fire became murderous.
We gained quite a lot of ground at first, but afterwards came under enfilade fire from machine guns cunningly hidden in folds of the ground.
Birdwood is quite confident that with a fresh Division and a decent supply of shell he can get hold of the heights of Sari Bair, whereby he will enfilade the whole network of Turkish trenches, now hedging him round.
Points, the capture of which would facilitate enfilade or reverse fire, and would thus render the rest of the position untenable.
Care must also be taken in consolidating the position that the entrenchments have a general alignment towards the enemy and that they are so sited as to protect from enfilade fire.
He must always be ready to assist a neighbouring commander by enfilade fire or by a relieving counter-attack; or to throw back a defensive flank in the event of a neighbouring post being captured by the enemy.
Enfilade fire, the most telling of all, is more easily brought to bear than of old owing to the increase in the effective range and in the rate of fire.
Porter's masses were in almost direct line from the point at which I stood, and in enfilade fire.
Rodes was in season to sweep the field of approach to the high point intended to be occupied by the divisions sent by Howard, and came in good position to enfilade Robinson's division of the First Corps.
As the fire came from an enfilade direction, the troops assumed that they were under enfilade fire, and General Anderson changed position without reporting.
They found a post from which they could enfilade the breastwork, and at their first discharge of grape sent its defenders into the redoubt for safety.
For, from Rethel to Compiegne, are bluffs 450 feet high overlooking the river with natural spurs jutting out from point to point to enfilade the stream.
In the first place, a trench is made zigzag, so that, if the enemy should make a sudden raid and seize a section of the trench, he can't fire along it and enfilade you.
He will cover the right flank of the general movement, and will endeavour to take up a position on Hlangwane Hill, where he will enfilade the kopjes north of the iron bridge.
Fourth Brigade, and will take up a position whence it can enfilade the kopjes north of the iron bridge.
Then, with a wild yelling, to give the rebels the impression that a large body had come over, they pushed forward to enfilade the enemy's trenches as first proposed.
They could now enfilade the rebels' position, and this they did so disastrously that the Filipinos speedily threw down a large part of their arms and fled helter-skelter into the mountain fastnesses still further to the northward.
It is also important to note that the Hindenburg system was being taken in enfilade on this part of the front.
Machine guns swept the advancing lines of the 5th, and the bare high ground to be crossed left them very exposed to exceedingly heavy enfilade fire.
Over the distance of two miles or thereabouts, the Germans, who were rallying after their defeat of the day before, could enfilade our ground.
One or two lots got caught in the beds of deep gullies, were opened on by concealed enfilade fire from machine-guns and rifles, and died to a man.
But how had they managed to hit off so well the right spot to go to to enfilade our trench before they even knew where we were?
