By that time, maybe, you will have completed thehowitzer that, planted at Calais, will make Dover Castle tumble into the dust.
The twelve-inch howitzer quite suffices for Calais if the plans for longer range guns miscarry or war comes quicker than we calculated.
German howitzer fire, from behind the ridge, however, soon destroyed the bridge.
In addition to these five divisions of the First Ban, there was also a regiment of mountain artillery, made up of six batteries, six howitzer batteries and two battalions of fortress artillery.
But for all that the French succeeded in blowing up some German trenches with a new howitzer they were anxious to tryout, and the Belgian-French forces retook St. Georges in northern Flanders.
The rifle grenade was described as the howitzer of the infantry, and was used to dislodge the enemy from behind cover and to drive him below ground.
Soon after an 8-inch shell from the enemy’s howitzer entered the room at the window and exploded.
A Howitzer and a field-gun, which stood close by, were then destroyed, and a Maxim was reserved to be brought away.
Though a force was sent out to meet them, we had to retire before overwhelming numbers, with the loss of the 8-inch howitzer and three 9-pounders.
But howitzer fire against aircraft was a sheer impossibility: it was like using a six-inch gun to kill a fly on a window pane at a thousand yards' range.
Comparative experiments with the howitzer and rocket showed that the howitzer was beaten by a rocket containing twelve ounces, eight ounces, and even four ounces of gun-cotton.
The Trinity House, in its experiments at South Foreland, found that the short twenty-four pound howitzer gave a better sound than the long eighteen-pounder.
The howitzer and this shell opened the battle--again A.
A shell fell beside the howitzer and burst with appalling sound.
As he spoke he stroked the howitzer as though it had been a living thing.
With the motion almost of the shell itself, a man of the crew of the howitzer reached the torn earth and the cylinder.
They drew the howitzer in position, charged it, and fired.
The aureate light, streaming on, beat full upon the howitzer and on the living and unwounded of its men.
Armstrong saw the danger, dashed across the bridge, with his section, drove off the artillerists, and captured the howitzer before it could be discharged.
In the morning, Washington despatched Major Crane of the artillery, with two twelve pounders and a howitzer to annoy her from the New York shore.
Coates gave orders for his troops to halt, form, and march up; a howitzer was brought to bear upon the bridge, and a fatigue party rushed forward to throw off the planks.
With his howitzer he threw shells into the town and set it on fire in several places.
The tepee sank, a huge umbrella wreck along the earth, and there lay Ute Jack across the fire's slight hollow, his knee-cap gone with the howitzer shell.
Both banks of the river were wrapped in smoke; from the shells villages miles away were in flames, and two hundred yards in front of us the howitzer shells were bursting in black fumes.
From both sides of the town French artillery were firing in salvoes, the shocks shaking the air; over the shop of the chemist shrapnel was whining, and in the street the howitzer shells were opening up subways.
In one street a high wall extended an entire block, but in the centre a howitzer shell had made a breach as large as a barn door.
At Fort Revere the commandant cut away concrete emplacements and succeeded in swinging one of his 12-inch guns around to fight the assailants, putting a heavy howitzer near Hingham out of action.
A second plunging shot fell near a gun behind Baker Hill; but the assailants, from howitzer batteries concealed under Turkey and Scituate Hills, concentrated a desperate bombardment on him that drove the Americans from the works.
Of horse artillery there was none at all, nor was there a single howitzer with the column.
General Prinsloo is known to have been in command of the Boers; his object is believed to have been the capture of the howitzer battery, the departure of which from Orange River Station for the north was known to the enemy.
At Magersfontein it was by observation from the air that the howitzer batteries got the range of the enemy's ponies concealed in a gully, and accounted for more than two hundred of them.
Then the howitzer opened, and a force of skirmishers advanced in full view.
Before such odds a few of our howitzer force gave way.
But the howitzer had made itself extremely disagreeable; his artillery had become disabled; his only chance lay in charging; and this appeared to be the time.
Only six shells were captured with the howitzer at San Pascual, and owing to its construction the gun could use no other ammunition.
Ampudia himself rode to Independence Hill, watched the blue line a while, ordered one hundred infantry to the summit, and had a 12-pounder and a howitzer planted there.
Americans; and at the proper distance Weightman and the howitzer section were ordered to charge the work at N, supported by the companies of Reid, Parsons and Hudson.
The howitzer soon broke the gate, however, and the Americans poured in.
Foot and horse, the Mexicans therefore sallied out, and gallantly they moved up the ridge, closing their ranks when the howitzer opened them.
Americans the howitzer belched a double charge of canister.
But beyond this the flashes of their discharges drew off all attention from the howitzer batteries in front of them, and served to conceal their presence from the enemy.
We march on for some four miles, when, coming upon the guards of the Massachusetts Eighth, our howitzer is ordered to fall out and wait for the train.
We pushed the platform car upon which howitzer No.
We are ordered to ship our howitzer on a platform car.
In fact, Carmagnole's ball had crushed one of the wheels of the howitzer and knocked down two of the Austrian artillerists an instant before the hostile battery had gotten in its first shot.
Almost immediately a few Indian pickets appeared on one or two of the surrounding heights, and a party of about twenty near the Big Piney, where the mountain road crossed the same, within howitzer range of the fort.
The 1st/1st London Artillery had departed, two howitzer batteries to the East, and the remainder to the 38th Division in Flanders.
A certain number of the emplacements were allotted to each howitzer battery of the Divisional Artillery, and also to such 6-inch howitzer batteries of the Corps Heavy Artillery as were available.
A second reorganization took place in September, to a basis of six-gun instead of four-gun batteries, though the howitzer batteries did not receive their extra section of two guns till the New Year.
There was, in fact, one field gun orhowitzer to a little more than twenty yards.
For this purpose the present formation, four artillery brigades, of which one was a howitzer brigade, was clumsy and extravagant.
Brigades, had been reorganized in May, the howitzerbatteries being divided among the other three Brigades.
The howitzer was taken to pieces and carried by the men to its destination.
I got an officer of the voltigeurs, with a mountain howitzerand men to work it, to go with me.
Sidenote: Howitzer High-Angle Fire] This fierce artillery engagement lasted about half an hour, and while it produced such deadly and demoralizing effects on the enemy it left the Japanese practically unharmed behind their screen of trees.
There is a burst of flame, as though the molten steel rebelled, and out comes the shell or the howitzerin the rough, nosed and hollowed, and ready for the turning.
Shortly after I saw the little band of heroes, with their brave leader in front, charge the right side battery, where a howitzer was posted; and they tried very hard to climb the mud walls, which were about twenty feet high.
By ten o'clock another battery from Molino del Rey, with some well-directed shots from a howitzer at the same point, seemed to annoy the garrison exceedingly.
For nearly two hours a howitzer battery shelled the place slowly and methodically, working up and down the little trench.
My own little shelter was blown to pieces by a howitzer shell and the occupants killed.
Before this attack started a huge howitzer was brought up and placed on the west side of Mametz Wood.
About a week after we left the village it was completely knocked to bits by the enemy's 10-inch howitzer shells.
Eventually the trench-mortaring got so severe, that the V Corps had a 12-inch howitzer brought up on the railway, and several of these huge shells were fired into Petit Bois when the German trench-mortars started.
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