Raise two more mantlets by the poop-lanthorn," said Sir Nigel quietly.
Our shell strike the enemy's side and fall into the water" (after bounding off the iron mantlets Winslow had so cleverly concealed).
But the French authorities naturally kept the two ships pretty far apart; so the Alabamas never saw the chain mantlets which the Kearsarges had cleverly hidden under a covering of wood that appeared to be flush with the hull.
Screens and mantlets for the protection of the engine-workers were used in great variety.
Mining was the most effective form of attack, and the approach to the walls was covered by engines throwing great stones against the hoardings of the parapets, and by cross-bowmen who were sheltered behind light mantlets moved on wheels.
Here those who had brought with them picks and mattocks set to work upon the dam, the men with mantlets shielding them from the storm of arrows, while numbers of archers opened fire upon the defenders.
As the English approached a rain of arrows was poured into them, but covering themselves with their shields and with large mantlets formed of hurdles covered with hides they pressed forward to the dam.
Suppose it proves necessary to construct a mound and to shelter ourselves with mantlets and fascines,[59] are we going to stand idle like a lot of helpless idiots, gaping at the height of the enemy's towers and ramparts?
The succeeding consuls, Opiter Verginius and Spurius Cassius, first endeavoured to take Pometia by storm, and afterward by means of mantlets [20] and other works.
When, after the mantlets and the other military works had been repaired, the soldiers were on the point of mounting the walls, the town surrendered.
They could see the Roman commander himself leaving the cover of the mantlets and advancing in the midst of his men up the perilous ascent under a tortoise fence of uplifted shields.
My own 12-pounder crews and those of Richards' guns hard at the mantlets for the armoured train, and doing the job very well.
Don't loose your shaft until a man is within three mantlets from the end; then if one misses, the next can take him when he runs across next time.
Do not heed the mantlets in front," said Dickon, who was in command of the six archers near Guy, "but pick off those fellows as they come down.
The mantlets too would serve them to some purpose, for we should not know exactly where they were standing behind them.
I should say that they are intending to march forward covered by mantlets of wattles and hides.
Many of the mantlets had been removed, and they doubted not that these had been used as litters for the conveyance of the wounded.
Fire arrows from mantlets and tortoises hissed overhead and fell, trailing sparks, into the atrium of the palace.
Torchlight flickered from behind wooden mantlets at the mouths of the streets approaching the palace from the north and south.
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