All field guns and heavies at once turned on to this target and the projected counter-attack was promptly broken up.
Round them theheavies still thundered and crashed and cracked savagely, and from the gun line where the field guns worked the roar of sound came rolling and throbbing fiercely and continuously.
Monday passed quietly at Equancourt, although one or two Fritzy shells bursting some few miles away with the unmistakeable kru-ump of his heavies set the brain working and conjured up memories.
The strike group included four Heavies besides the flagship, with twelve Mediums and twenty Lights.
The Fleet Force that had escorted nearly one hundred thousand ground troops included five Heavies and other craft in proportion, besides the transports and supply ships.
My men carried a number of the Heavies from the field to the hospitals; then I got my store of priceless blankets, and off we plodded through the mud back to camp.
General Bosquet said that the charge of the heavies was sublime; that of the Light Brigade was splendid; "but it was not war.
The heaviescould get in long-range fire from Kustul, but what thought the 18-pounder batteries?
Tractors, those wonderfully ugly but efficient engines which triumphed over most obstacles, had got the heavies into position.
Men in the ranks of the 8th also pointed and made signs to the troopers of the Heavies as they were passing left to left.
Kinglake heard of no ground for believing that the Russian horse thus wheeling southward, were cognisant of the presence of the Heavies in the valley they were entering.
He significantly points out that Kinglake does not, as is his custom, quote the words of Lord Raglan's order directing the march of the Heaviesto Kadiköi.
General Hamley assigns no ground for the Russian halt, but mentions that just at the moment of collision between our Heaviesand the Russian mass "three guns" on the edge of the upland were fired on the latter.
Just then a cheer was raised by some Heavies who had lately formed in front of "C" Troop.
By and by some of the Heavies were moved over the crest, no doubt the Royals and Greys which Scarlett was to lead forward in support of the Light Brigade.
The Heavies warped themselves laboriously into position behind our hill, disguised themselves as gooseberry bushes, and gave an impression of the crack of doom at 2 A.
The field guns had gone to bye-bye, the Heavies had gone elsewhere.
The mess passed rapidly through every style of architecture, from a Chinese pagoda to a Swiss châlet, and was on the point of confusing itself with a Spanish castle when the Heavies switched off their hate and went to bed.
I looked into an adjoining tent and found the liaison officer from the heavies busy on the telephone.
And I shall never forget the way the heavies lammed it into the wood.
As it was also my business to know what the Heavies were doing, I stopped at an O.
I passed this information to the brigade-major, and our guns, and the heavies behind them, fired harder than ever.
Then the heavies opened again as accurately as before and twice as fast.
On the early morning of the 19th of February we were awakened by the artillery fire from Abu Dis, where our heavies were assisting the attack of the London Scottish on Muntar.
The jar of these guns as they grind over the gravel is enough to grind the heart out of you," said a sweating cannoneer who was pressing a helping shoulder to one of the heavies as we negotiated a steep hill.
The forest shakes and our tree top sways with the slam of the heavies close by.
Broad steel tires on the carriages of the heavies bumped and rumbled over the clean cobbles and the horses pranced spryly to get the kinks out of their legs, long fatigued from vibrations of the train.
This particular battery ofheavies was engaged on a night long programme of interdiction fire laid down with irregular intensity on cross roads and communication points in the enemy's back areas.
The column moved off with the Hussars in front, then the Guards, and after them the convoy, followed by the Heavies and the Mounted Infantry.
Both officers and men still faced the enemy, although the line of the Heavies was bent into an irregular semicircle extending into the square as far as the kneeling camels behind.
A more interesting event, perhaps, was the winning of the Light Heavies in the Brigade Boxing Competition by Sergeant Cox, our Sergeant-Bootmaker.
We were saluted by heavies in the security airlock, then the doors opened.
Noda's two heavies personified brute physicality, the body triumphant; Tam and I were meeting them with the power of the mind and, I hoped, finely honed intuition.
In fact his two sumo heavies were now standing outside my office, keeping a close eye on us.
He was still closing his briefcase as we passed the guards, a couple of guys who looked like the heavies in an old Bruce Lee karate epic.
Tommy and I had to stay out on the gun, and pretty soon the German heavies began to shell the trench, and we had to dig ourselves in to protect us from the shrapnel.
I guess Fritz was sore, for our Stokes light trench mortars and heavies had been pounding the German trenches all day long.
The German guns were dropping heavies on the ground we had left, and as the prisoners went back they were caught in their own shell fire and a lot were killed.
Wire cutting was undertaken and carried out by all field batteries, and the heavies pounded enemy emplacements and communication trenches in the rear.
They did considerable damage, but, at the same time, were largely responsible for stirring up a veritable wasp's nest of hostile heavies which had been lying dormant for ages, and consequently our front again became active.
At length preparations were completed, and the two Brigades of the Divisional Artillery took up new advanced positions alongside the reinforcing batteries already in line, while the heavies were thickly aligned close in the rear.
Now was the opportunity for our cavalry, and the Heavies were not slow in taking advantage of it.
Ordering Mostyn to follow these up, Granby (always well to the front) wheeled the heavies to the right, and threw himself on the right rear of De Muy's infantry.
The fire of the German heavies now seemed to be concentrated on our next crater.
Two miles farther back the heavies are banging away over our heads.
Again, yesterday, I put our Heavies in action, and in a quarter of an hour a fine old church, with what appeared from the distance a magnificent tower, was nothing but a grotesque heap of ruins.
I can still hear the festive crash of the Heavies as they fired slowly, scientifically, and well.
At the agreed time our artillery came down with both the heavies and the 75's, and the patch of woods was enveloped in clouds of smoke through which the bursts of the H.
Our heavies have just started firing and it sounds good," was Erickson's reassuring message.
The Heavies were thrown into confusion, for the enemy were right among them, killing and wounding with demoniacal fury.
Our guns were firing from many batteries, and flights of shells rushed through the air from the heavies a long way back and from the field-guns forward.
But the gunners, standing by the heavies and the 18-pounders in the sodden fields, with piles of shells about them and great dumps near by, have no easy, pleasant time.
The wind blew strongly across, beating back the noise of guns, but the air was all filled with the deep roar and the slamming knocks of single heavies and the drum-fire of field-guns.
One air squadron alone helped a group of heavies to silence seventy-two batteries.
On the extreme right of the Canadians the enemy opened a very heavy bombardment from the Keifburg spur, and it was so violent that special artillery action was called for, and a number of Australian heavies took measures to silence these guns.
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