I told you weeks ago that the other people were carrying too many big guns for you.
If I had your job in that, I'd be going around here toting two guns and wondering if I couldn't make room in the holster for another.
Cease firing until they come on again," he replied is he took the shells from the magazines of the other guns and piled them near the bow gun.
I turned to the knobs controlling the guns and lights, but, before I could make a move, something hard and cold grasped me about the middle and I was lifted into the air and drawn toward the open door after Jim.
Then the great guns on the other side poured out the return fire, raking the ranks of the Highlanders, clearing great gaps, and carrying destruction even into the second line.
At the extremities of the two wings the guns were placed, four on each side, the only artillery on the Prince's side.
Then we tacked about, and with six of our guns raked the enemy fore and aft; but we were answered very quickly with a broadside that killed two of our men and wounded a third.
Next morning we got ready our artillery, and brought guns up against the town.
As for us, we steered off, to clear away the lumber from our powder-room, as we had nothing left to charge our guns with.
To avoid chance shots from the guns of the Castle, they made a wide circle round the town, but so still was the night that across the city they could hear the watches called in the distant fortress.
But just as they were about signing articles of surrender, Middleton returned with a large boat and plenty of provisions, and he ran his boat under the guns of his fort, whence he laughed at the enemies of his king.
It was armed and garrisoned, and no army without large guns need attempt to attack it.
In their rage at the delay they fired one of the quarter-deck guns upon the camp, while on board they destroyed everything they could lay hands on.
Now one day the supercargo and six of the men and myself went ashore, taking guns and powder, and knives and scissors to trade with, and the ship's dog went with us.
They were the first to open fire, but their guns were small, and the firing ill-directed; the balls went over the heads of the enemy and did little harm.
In August 1693 a French frigate of twelve guns sailed under the Bass and landed supplies.
Those terrible engines of war, the Maxim guns and the Hotchkiss shells, contributed largely to our success on these occasions.
The captain gave them guns and food, and as the boat put off, they stood upon the beach and gave three cheers, and shouted 'God bless the King.
The French were confident that the British would not dare to take their ships farther up the river past the cannonade of the guns in Quebec, though this the British accomplished almost without loss.
Fog guns and lights as signals of distress availed little to the ships in difficulty.
Sometimes in their excess of zeal they overcharged their cannon so that the guns burst.
He was attacked by three English merchantmen, with one hundred and twenty guns against his forty-four.
Men harnessed like horses dragged guns through morasses into position, exposed themselves recklessly, and showed the skill, initiative, and resolution which we have now come to consider the dominant qualities of the Yankee.
As for the yacht itself, there were only a few sport guns in the cabins, as you saw for yourself.
And another thing--they've gotguns and pistols, plenty of 'em.
Edie Van Tromp saw this island and called out 'Land-o,' and the next thing we knew a lot of men with guns had surrounded us and were ordering us to go to our staterooms and to be quick about it.
According to old regulations, the guns and ammunition and other arms she carries for her defence are herein enumerated.
The Jubraj visited me to offer his congratulations, and a salute of thirty-one guns was fired.
I strongly urged on the General the necessity of making an attempt to dislodge him before nightfall, and he was about to lead out a party to the attack when it was deemed more prudent to try the guns from another point first.
After going for a short distance along the road, we found a place up which the guns could go, and a party of fifty men under Lieut.
On the 21st, the guns arrived on elephants, and feeling sure that no proper carriage could have been provided for their transport, I had taken the precaution to bring one hundred Kuki coolies to carry them.
The main body with the guns then gradually ascended to the Government Road.
After incredible labour, we succeeded in getting the guns into position at about 1200 yards distance from the highest point of Konoma, and at once opened fire, while Lieut.
Henderson, 44th Assam Light Infantry, was sent ahead to skirmish up the hillside, the guns carried by my coolies following with the General and his Staff, including myself.
We took sixteenguns and a large number of wall pieces, all said to have been wrested from Manipur in former days.
Meanwhile, the guns had made little impression on the people, and none on the stone forts of Konoma, but the 44th were advancing gallantly to the attack up the steep ascent to the village, a brisk fire being kept up on both sides.
The troops consisted of 43rd and 44th Assam Light Infantry and two seven-pound mountain-guns under Lieut.
A few minutes after a messenger came to inform us that the guns merely announced a domestic event, but Thangal Major was nervous and soon took leave, running away to the palace at a pace that did credit to his sixty-four years.
While talking, two guns were fired from the palace, when the old man turned pale, evidently thinking that the Maharajah was dead.
Under it spring-guns and man-traps would no longer scare the owner from his own coverts.
He halted opposite the Privy Gardens, and, with his face turned skywards, listened until the sound of the Tower guns smote again on the ear and dispelled his doubts.
Though the guns roared loudly, however, no injury was inflicted.
It was pleasant to watch the tall ship as she sailed by our side, with pennants flying, and the muzzles of her guns peering through her ports, and to think of the far-distant lands she had visited.
I held my breath in my anxiety, looking intently towards the embrasures, out of which I knew the guns were protruding.
There were forts on either side of the river, and should intelligence of what had occurred reach them, they would undoubtedly attempt with their guns to stop our progress.
The guns aimed at our vessel sent their shot astern of us, two or three only passing through our mizzen, but doing no further damage.
It seemed as if the whole of her crew must have been shot down by the guns of the Beggars!
But I remembered how, on Earth, Etl's cage had been surrounded by machine-guns and cyanogen tanks, rigged to kill him quickly if it became necessary.
After that, popular opinion insisted that the cage be constantly surrounded by four manned machine-guns pointing inward.
Why didn't we at least use our guns when we'd had the chance?
The guns had to be carried down to the led horses, as firing was still pretty hot; the ground, besides, was so rough that it was impossible even to lead the pack animals over it.
Just then the Turk got some field guns in action and sent a few shells over at us, the very first one falling right on top of Brigade Headquarters; fortunately, it did not hit anyone!
Ten guns were mounted outside the camp itself, all men took cover and the line-guards tripled in 1 minute 50 seconds!
Almost at once, the deadly fire of the two machine-guns began to tell their tale, and odd Turks here and there suddenly remembered "a very urgent appointment".
Every evening just before dusk (sometimes in a severe dust storm), the four guns were taken up on the pack-mules by the gun-teams and brought back after light the next morning.
As early as September 8th, there was a test "turn-out" of the Squadron in full marching order, withguns on packs.
During this the sound of guns was heard in the distance from the direction of the sea.
Enfilading the enemy these guns were raking his flank with fire, whilst he was preparing to make a final rush down into the wadi.
They "man-handled" their guns and took up good positions, the rocks affording them a certain amount of cover.
The teams for the guns have to be maintained, and when these are reduced in strength an enormous amount of extra work falls on those who remain.
Here, German troops succeeded in getting right round some of the posts and endangering our bridgehead defences; they had moved guns up, which enabled them to reach places previously out of range of anything but their "heavies".
The guns were turned upon the attacking dragoons, a storm of shell received the squadron.
Quicker and quicker grew the pace, the battery was almost reached, when once again the guns opened fire, and sent their case-shot into the very midst of the gallant riders.
A Prussian battery had been brought forward and the shells suddenly fell amongst the storming party, whilst a fresh and tremendous fire from the needle-guns opened upon them from the mill.
Now it is to be the needle-guns that have done everything; at first everyone said it was the generals' fault, and now the generals say it was the needle-guns.
I hold to it they were right at first, and that if the Prussians had had our generals, their needle-guns would not have helped them much.
The foreigners found him like that that very night when they executed their unexpected sortie in the dark against the guns that had been posted at the gateway and had annoyed them for several days.
Some of our people saw the foreign soldiers on this embankment extending many li, with big guns on the trains.
The hidden army must have eyes that could see; for the guns had ceased magically and the musketry rattle too.
All who embrace the belief need fear no guns or swords.
After the grave was filled up, guns were fired above it, and the Welbury village choir sang an anthem.
All the hunters of the village knew him well; and a half-dozen boys, who owned guns and were eager to join the hunters' ranks, had a shooting acquaintance with him.
When he saw the otter slide he forswore traps and snares for birds; and I left the place, soon after, with good hopes for the grouse, knowing that I had spiked the guns of his most dangerous enemy.
We will run in under the guns of our friends and come to anchor.
The decks were cleared for action, the deck lanterns lighted, the guns double-shotted, and men with eyes of preternatural brilliancy stationed on the lookout.
I could not divest myself of the idea that the Guarda Costa had divined our intentions and was quietly lying to, somewhere in our vicinity, sure of finding us snugly under her guns at the dawn of the day.
He moored his vessel close to the shore, loaded his large guns to the muzzle with grape and canister, and every musket with bullets and buckshot.
She discharged three or four guns from her starboard ports, which were replied to by the "long Tom" of the privateer.
The guns were served with almost incredible skill and activity, and aimed with the nicest precision.
Meanwhile, I'll away and ripe oot a' the airms and guns I can find.
The drum now beat to quarters--the guns were cast loose; shot and powder were handed up; the men buckled on their cutlasses, and stuck their pistols in their belts.
This produced almost as great an effect as the former one, but I suspect that some of the guns were trained low, for I saw distinctly masses of white splinters flying off from her quarters.
We yawed, so that our guns could be brought to bear on the stranger.
The island is defended by two forts, and we heard that the guns had been dismounted and sent to Portugal, in order that should the place be captured by the natives, it might be the more easily retaken by the slave-dealers.
I have already described the large retinue with which we had to move; and though we carried a great deal of food, so much was required for so large a number that we had to depend mainly on our guns for the meat to put into our pots.
We now could make out that she had at least four ports on each side, with some heavy gunslooking out at them; but she showed no colours from which we might ascertain her nation.
And there came also the drum fire of machine guns and the hail of shrapnel.
There was the enemy still on the slope, still protected in his concrete forts and with machine guns and bombs at hand.
The fire of our artillery which in its retired position remains unaffected by the combined fire of our infantry machine guns and hand grenades, breaks up the clouds and prevents the enemy from following it up.
The Germans’ big guns came after us within half an hour and our own artillery had nothing with which to reply.
I had to make a showing in acquiring the use of the set, cinema camera with its purpose of acquiring continuous bird’s-eye views of the enemy’s positions and in mastering the use of aërial guns and the newer problems which they presented.
You must understand that the bombardment was ceaseless from the forts, the guns of all our ships roaring back at them the while.
There was only one flyer in the Fokker and he let go at us with his machineguns the second he saw us.
Then again I would suffer the keenest tortures because of the roaring of guns--imaginary guns at that, I suppose they were, smashed at my ears and racked my burning head.
As at St. Elois the Germans seemed possessed of a wizard knowledge of our position and their guns were regularly popping their shells into places within our lines which we regarded as most well-concealed.
They slept in these dug-outs, or in the trenches, and the detonation of the guns of the warships shook loose the earth and sand above them so that it rattled down in their faces, waking them from dreams of home to an uncomfortable reality.
So while we were advancing, the bigguns had been giving the hill the merry devil, but without destructive effect.
Against the great guns of the Turkish fort we had only in like artillery the great guns of our battle ships.
We had seven hundred yards or more to traverse to get to Hans and his guns swept us destructively every step of the way.
If, for example, some manufacturing firm had already considered it and was planning to put Cooling guns into production.
The guns could be strung out to cover a whole sector, then wired to a single main switch--and one lone observer could stop an infantry advance.
It was sometime during those two hours that the Claggett gang smashed their way through a police roadblock just outside Lima, their guns blasting reply to the machine-gun bullets peppering their big sedan.
The guns could be mounted on tripods with a rotating mechanism that kept them sweeping the area constantly.
The State of Ohio wants Cooling guns for its police officers; after this, other States will undoubtedly follow suit.
How many artillery officers laughed at the suggestion that a day was coming when thousands of great guns would be directed from the air?
There are the lines,' he shouted, and as far as the eye could see, to left and right, out of the darkness beneath us were the constant flashes of the never silent guns of the Flanders front.
Next to this miniature factory is the armorers' hut where all the machine guns are overhauled daily, ammunition tested as regards rims, sunken caps, etc.
The only thing out of the ordinary that evening in the squadron's routine was the mounting of double guns in the aeroplanes and an earlier dinner hour; the dinner, possibly, was gayer than usual.
Apparently 24 guns were obtained this way; only 2 were obtained from the Navy Yard.
The Secretary of the Navy promised some captured guns then at Philadelphia.
Four years later, in 1821, when her guns and machinery were removed, it was found that she was rapidly becoming rotten.
I shall use every exertion to prepare her for immediate service; her guns will soon be mounted, and I am assured by Mr. Fulton, that her machinery will be in operation in about six weeks.
The captured guns thus obtained were probably English, part of the cargo of the British ship John of Lancaster captured by the frigate President early in the war.
This was a sailing vessel for the defense of the port of New York, planned to mount 40 guns (32-pdr.
The battery then was given a thorough trial under steam and sail and, with the ship underway, her guns were fired to see if concussion would damage the machinery.
The Battery was designed to carry 30 guns (32-pdr.
The stores of artillery in New York not furnishing the number and kind of cannon which she was destined to carry, it became necessary to transport guns from Philadelphia.
She was to carry a battery of 22 long guns (32-pdr.
First of all they are going to take Calais; then they are going to bring their big guns and bombard Dover.
At present we are not ready to strike our decisive blow, but when we have more guns and ammunition, we shall be able to drive them like a flock of sheep.
The trenches are so made that even the German guns cannot hurt us.
I reflected that at that time the German guns were thundering at the Liege forts, and that, except some miracle happened, the German hordes would sweep towards Paris, as in the great debacle of 1870.
I wondered, too, whether our guns were equal to those of the Germans.
While I write, guns are booming, and the war between the nations goes on; but I do not fear.
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