Finally, some men of the left counter-attack got within 20 yards of the enemy's trench, and one machine gun took up a position enfilading it at point-blank range.
But the casualties from both Turkish enfilading batteries were never reckoned in all at 2,000--big enough, but very little result for the molestation that the Turks hoped to throw down on the heroes who toiled there day and night.
Deployed on the flank of this position, the Serbian gunners had suddenly covered it with a terrible enfilading fire and men, horses, carts, and wagons lay in a mangled heap.
I was enfilading them, and they tore out of the trenches, and so on, each trench in turn, and fell in hundreds.
Position of the directing lines of an enfilading battery, relative positions of the cannon, the howitzers, or the mortars.
Unfortunately, a heavyenfilading machine-gun fire from the north-east and north-west wrecked the attack.
Meanwhile, the 10th Brigade was to co-operate by pushing forward its saps so as to be able to support the 11th Brigade by anenfilading fire.
The enemy was enabled to hold his trenches in great force and to bring a devastatingly effective enfilading machine-gun fire to bear upon the 44th from the vicinity of the quadrangle.
It is said that the grenadiers marched with so much precision, that a ball from Comb's Hill, enfilading a platoon, disarmed every man.
Some of the enemy had secured a position on our right flank, where they opened an enfilading fire, and it was one of their bullets that had hit me.
Though not very strongly manned, the work was a heavy one, and from its commanding position and the heavy enfiladingfire that could be brought to bear on almost any part of it, not by any means an easy one to carry.
We received fire from the north, south, and west face of the fort, completely enfilading our ditches, and rendering it almost impracticable for a man to expose his person above the parapet.
We received their fire from the north, south, and west of the redoubt, completely enfiladingour ditches and rendering it almost impracticable for a man to expose his person above the parapet.
A salient is weak because almost any fire directed against it becomes an enfilading fire for one or another part of it.
During this action each side successively suffered from anenfilading fire, and General Ashby was killed.
The Confederates stood their ground until they found themselves subjected to two enfilading fires, when they at once gave way, and Stanley's men rode in among them and used their sabres and pistols.
Moreover, an enfilading fire from the north bank was thwarted by traverses--intrenchments at right angles to the main line.
Moreover, Longstreet found an eminence that commanded a part of his line, promptly took advantage of it by placing a battery there, and threw in an enfilading fire.
The enfilading fire from batteries right and left still continued; the fierce fitful flashes of the bursting shells becoming more visible with the approach of night.
A Union battery, however, came to the rescue, and an enfilading fire of but a few moments made havoc unparalleled.
Living men could not stand before that heavy and direct musketry, and the deadly enfilading cannonade from batteries upon the right and left.
At length Neill's brigade passed far to the right of the rebel line, and poured an enfilading volley into the gray-coats.
The final repulse of the rebels was made more complete and more fatal to them by the timely aid of a section of Mott's battery, which had come up and opened an enfilading fire upon them from the left.
The rebels had opened an enfilading fire upon the division, which made fearful havoc.
They rose up as we advanced, and poured showers of leaden hail into our line; but one of our batteries, getting an enfilading fire on the road, sent the gray-coated occupants hurriedly to the rear.
Then they were met with enfilading fires, from which the carnage exceeded all that had been before.
It was a short-lived triumph; the work taken was commanded by the guns of other forts on either flank, and the enfilading guns with strong bodies of infantry soon compelled a retreat of the enemy.
Through a misunderstanding of orders the Ohio regiments fell back a short distance, but soon retook the crest and were again fiercely engaged, though under an enfilading fire of artillery and a galling fire of musketry.
The enemy's superiority in artillery gave him a great advantage, and most of the day Ricketts' troops held their position under an enfilading fire from Early's batteries.
The men pulled their guns through mud axle deep, and poured in a destructiveenfilading fire.
The Vixen and Scorpion took up positions on opposite flanks, close in shore, for the purpose of enfilading any infantry that might fire upon the ships.
During this period the 13th Battalion, supported by the 1st Egyptian, had been operating on a detached hill to the left and suffering from an enfilading fire from some concealed riflemen.
As the fire became hotter, the parapet of the zeriba grew in height, and here and there traverses of boxes and packages were built up as a protection against the enfilading fire of the enemy's sharpshooters.
Whilst Macdonald was repelling the new assault on his right, Lewis's brigade was enfilading the Khalifa's attack on the left.
Colonel Wodehouse, who was in command of the infantry division, then proceeded to extend his line by moving the 9th Soudanese to the right with a view to enfilading the enemy's left flank.
Howard's guns in the cemetery would trouble them most by enfilading the lines.
Russell moving along the road received an enfilading fire from artillery and musketry.
The Fifth Maine battery was in an exceedingly favorable position, at an angle of the earthworks, east of the hill, and cut down the Rebels with a destructive enfilading fire.
On this neck was concentrated the fire of more than a score of machine-guns, while the approach to the hill beyond was scarred by trench after trench, each one enfiladingthat before it.
After being sent forward over open country against big fields of barbed wire, with enfilading machine-guns hidden at every turn, it was a sheer luxury to lie in the trenches and let the other fellow do a bit of self-immolation.
There were also guns on each of the two knolls which terminated Brighton Beach, and from them and from machine guns very cleverly placed on high points a cruel enfilading fire was directed upon the beach.
When the enfilading fire down the valley was at its worst and orders were posted that the ambulance men must not go out, the Man and the Donkey continued placidly at their work.
The sixty yards of plateau that separated them from their objective was clear and flat, and was swept by well-posted machine-guns, and by rifle fire from cleverly placed enfilading trenches.
The brigantines sailed along the sides of the causeways, and aided by their enfilading fires, the advance of the squadrons on land.
Shortly after the monitors and the bow guns of the fleet began firing, the enemy's gunboats and the Tennessee moved out from behind Morgan and took their position enfilading the channel.
To place at the end of Mobile Point the heaviest fort, enfilading the channel, and to confine the latter to the narrowest bed, compelling the assailant into the most unfavorable route, were measures too obvious to escape the most incapable.
The trench was one that was seldom used, being thoroughly exposed to enfilading fire.
By this method, unexpectedly but none the less jubilantly, he recovers his queen--only to see it laid low again by enfilading fire from a perfectly obvious redoubt.
We took their firing trench, but had to vacate it because it was subject to an enfilading fire from the enemy.
By this maneuver, Cleburne's men were right upon their flank, and enfilading their lines, while they were expecting an attack in their front.
General Hood says they are enfilading his line, and are decimating his men, and he can't hold his position.
But the actual gap appeared to be undefended, and, better still, the rubbish on the near side had so piled itself that for half the way up the stormers could climb under cover, protected from the enfilading fire.
The gunners spring from their seats, wheel their pieces and throw their shells, an enfilading fire, into the upper works.
Both were strong works, with bastions and angles, and ditches that could be swept by an enfilading fire.
It is especially effective in enfilading a line of troops, a battery, or the face of a work taken in flank.
So, at the battle of Shiloh, the rebels' triumphant advance on the evening of the first day was effectually checked by the fire of our gun-boats Tyler and Lexington, which had taken an enfiladingposition opposite their right flank.
So, also, if we can obtain an oblique or enfilading fire on his troops, it will be very destructive.
In enfilading the enemy's position, or in raking his advancing columns from head to rear, a grazing fire is the most destructive that can be used.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "enfilading" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
