This was the great 16-inch weapon with which the French so pounded Fort Douaumont as to cause its evacuation by the Germans.
This was the mighty weapon of which I had heard rumors but had never seen: the great 16-inch howitzer with which the French had so pounded Fort Douaumont as to cause its evacuation by the Germans.
Thus prepared, no time was lost when the evacuation became necessary.
He therefore ordered the evacuation of the former, thus surrendering, to use again Rodney's words, "the best and noblest harbour in America.
The dinner on Evacuation Day at Bardin's was one of the last notable dinners given in the old City Tavern.
Before the evacuation of New York by the British troops, Cape entered the city and secured control of the old Province Arms, and was here to welcome the army of Washington when they marched in.
Final evacuationof the United States by the British.
A dinner was served here to Captain Swain's Company of the Third Regiment of Artillery onEvacuation Day, 1813.
This was repeated the next year on Evacuation Day.
In the first place, the demolition of cross-roads by mines and the blocking of routes by the blowing up of railway arches and bridges rendered the evacuation of casualties a difficult matter.
This move was necessary, as farther south the enemy had driven back the Fifth Army to such an extent that the evacuation of the Flesquieres Ridge had become necessary.
Kriemhild found there seven kings' daughters that were for an adornment to Etzel's whole land.
The noble host bade provide good lodging for them all.
And persistently allowing the bladder to become overfull, and failure to have a daily evacuation of the bowels, are prolific sources of displacements of the womb.
There should be an evacuation of the bowels in from twenty-four to thirty-six hours after the labor.
Costiveness; a state in which there is not a free daily evacuation of the bowels, or where the evacuations are hard or expelled with difficulty.
From the time of Hippocrates to 1835 the theory prevailed that in the female body the formation of blood is sufficiently rich to provide every four weeks for an overflow of the same, the evacuation of which becomes a necessity.
A daily free evacuation of the bowels is essential to good health.
The use of hot fomentations over the kidneys and bladder will often hasten the evacuation of urine if it has been unduly delayed.
These orders were countermanded by reason of the evacuation of that place, on the 14th; and on the 22d, Thomas was ordered with his division to proceed by forced marches to Louisville, and there embark for Nashville.
The fall of Donelson compelled the evacuation of Nashville.
Another Silhouette of Silence: It is an operating-room in an evacuation hospital.
We had seen every available room in the great evacuation hospital crowded.
Nearly everything in the way of war material had been lost in the hurried evacuation of New York.
Meantime, however, the steady extension of his lines toward Hell Gate had operated such a change of opinion in the American camp that the decision to hold the city was now reconsidered, and the evacuation fixed for September 15.
After the evacuation of Fort Lee, Lee was urged, unfortunately not ordered, to cross his force into the Jerseys, and so bring it into coöperation with the troops already there.
Marshal Bernadotte replied to me on the 16th of November, and said, "I hasten to inform you that I have given orders for the evacuation of the bailiwick of Bergdorf and all the Hamburg territory.
The grounds on which the Senate appealed for the evacuation of their territory were such that Bernadotte could not but acknowledge their justice.
The time within which theevacuation of the Philippine Islands and Guam shall be completed shall be fixed by the two Governments.
On August 17th President McKinley named commissioners to adjust the Spanish evacuation of Cuba and Porto Rico, in accordance with the terms of the protocol.
The evacuation occurred on the night of September 6th.
In due time Spain announced her commissioners, and, as agreed, they met in September and the arrangements for evacuation were speedily completed and carried out.
Some months later, upon the evacuation of Norfolk, the Merrimac was blown up to prevent her falling into the hands of the Unionists, and the Monitor foundered off Hatteras in December, 1862.
When the loss of Damietta and the evacuation of Egypt was known at Rome, Pope Honorius III.
Upon the evacuation of Egypt by the Christians, the volunteers returned to Europe, and the Barons of Syria and the military orders retired to Acre.
Increase the evacuation by stool and by perspiration, by taking rhubarb every night, about six or ten grains with one grain of opium for some months.
An endeavour to establish a habit of evacuation at a certain hour daily.
In one kind the air is said to exist in the bowels, in which case the tumor is less equal, and becomes less tense and painful on the evacuation of air.
To excite the system into necessary action by the repeated exhibition of nutrientia, sorbentia, and incitantia; and to preserve the due evacuation of the bowels.
White vitriol six grains dissolved in one ounce of rose-water removes inflammations of the eyes after evacuation more certainly than solutions of lead.
Besides the evacuation of any noxious material from the stomach and duodenum, and from the absorbents, which open their mouths on their internal surfaces, by their retrograde motion.
From considering all these circumstances, it appears that it is not the evacuation by sweats, but the continued stimulus, which causes and supports those sweats, which is serviceable in preventing the returns of fever-fits.
This last would be a clear indication of policy, and would better enable the country to accept the evacuation of Fort Sumter as a military necessity.
On the evening of the evacuation of Fort George, several of the actors in the busy drama of the time were assembled in the great kitchen of Squire Drayton's hospitable house.
In the action which led to the British evacuation of Fort George, young Morton took an active part in endeavouring to repel the invasion of his country.
The whole State of New York had been waiting impatiently for the evacuation of the City.
Henry Astor's prosperity had been temporarily checked by the evacuation of New York, which had occurred five months before, and which had deprived the tradesmen of the city of their best customers.
In the meantime he was addressing the following letters to Vergennes: "Monsieur le Comte: "There is nothing very important here but the news of the evacuation of Boston, which arrived three days ago.
All the quarrels for the last eight days are in relation to the quomodo of the evacuation of Boston.
By the peculiarity of his situation, from the time he left Cambridge until the evacuation of Canada, Arnold was compelled on many occasions to act in the triple capacity of commander, commissary, and paymaster.
When Arnold was at Valley Forge, a short time before the evacuation of Philadelphia, he gave a written protection for a vessel then at that city to proceed to sea and enter any port within the United States.
German imperialism might have seized Petrograd, theevacuation of which the Kerensky Government had already begun.
The evacuation was followed by a re-evacuation, which not infrequently completed the destruction both of the property transferred and of the railways.
The evacuation of Petersburg and Richmond, and the surrender of the principal insurgent army, give hope of a righteous and speedy peace, whose joyous expression cannot be restrained.
The scenes incident to the evacuation of Fredericksburg are well remembered to the present day by those who were present and witnessed them.
The scenes of theevacuation of Fredericksburg are taken principally from "The Past, Present and Future of Fredericksburg," by Rev.
On the morning of the 3rd he commenced the evacuation of Richmond, abandoned his entire line in front of Petersburg and retreated in the direction of Danville.
In this disordered state, we observe nature providing for the re-establishment of order, by exciting some salutary evacuation of the morbific matter, or by some other operation which escapes our imperfect senses and researches.
