But whereas the Nile-peoples pounded the stone in mortars and washed the dust on sloping boards, here the matrix must be laboriously levigated.
The less valuable Semayla placer produced dust in a hard reddish loam, mixed with still more refractory materials; it was crushed in mortars with rude wooden dollies or with grain-pestles.
McClellan sends for mortars and hundred-pounders; these monsters are to fight, but not he.
There were now 96 rifled cannon pieces and 38 mortars in full fire at very short range.
By the morning the trenches were two feet wide and three and a half feet deep, and 20 heavy guns and 8 mortars were ready to open fire.
Both lunettes were now furnished with batteries of mortars and guns to silence the fire from the ravelines and counter-guards of the front of attack, against which five dismounted and counter-batteries were also directed.
The ancient crushing appliances, as indicated by the ancient authors and by the Greek and Roman remains scattered over Europe, were hand-mortars and mill-stones of the same order as those with which they ground flour.
Twelve little mortars of gold full of incense, weighing ten sicles apiece, by the weight of the sanctuary: that is, in all a hundred and twenty sicles of gold.
Dr Fitchett has rather overstated the case in saying that “a battery of mortars on the island guarded, as with a sword of fire, the gap betwixt the headmost ship and the island.
La Touche Tréville, in command at Boulogne, had also profited by his recent experience with the British, and had fitted out additional bomb-ketches and placed mortars on smacks for the purpose of defence.
On the 2nd August Nelson was off the coast of France, “looking at Boulogne,” and observed the soldiers erecting guns and mortars “as if fearful of an attack.
These mortars have the ordinary circular depressions and are used with a round pestle or crusher, often of somewhat long, cylindrical form for convenience in handling.
Mortars are in general use in Zuñi and Tusayan households.
The use of light mortars for the trenches, introduced by Coehoorn and revived with extemporized means at Port Arthur, needs great attention.
Later in the siege, more howitzers and mortars to clear the covered way and places of arms, and finally, after the covering of the covered way, fifty additional battering guns would be required.
It will be observed that batteries for mortars and field guns are established in the captured lunettes.
These mortars he emplaced in open fronted mortar-casemates, in concealed positions.
He endeavoured to prove mathematically that the discharge of these mortars would in due course kill off the whole of the besieging force.
His general services during the siege were not conspicuous, but he deserves great credit for constructing the wooden mortars which General McPherson used near its close with most remarkable effect.
Two mortarswhich the Confederates got into operation that day in front of General A.
It was the signal for the forty guns and mortars that had been mounted on Point Lévis to open on the city that Vaudreuil and his friends had fondly thought was out of range.
By the night of the 11th, all the batteries were complete, and on the 12th more than fifty guns and mortars were pounding the walls.
The signal given, our forces advanced rapidly towards the fort, while our mortars in the rear tossed their bombs over their heads.
Our men worked with such energy that nearly thirty cannon and mortars were in position on the 17th of July.
Therefore earthworks were immediately thrown up at the distance of about a thousand yards from the fort, and the guns and mortars from Folly Island brought over to be placed in position.
Not a gun replied to the bombs which our mortars still constantly hurled into the fort.
The artillery and mortars on both sides were kept almost constantly at work.
The defenders emptied their rifles, cannon and mortars upon the very heads of the brave assaulters, making of them a human hecatomb.
In vain they demonstrated that from the nature of the enemy's attack by way of Nelson River, they could not use their mortars or artillery, the ground being very bad and interspersed with woods, thickets and bogs.
Almost immediately he disembarked with all his people, also with cannons, mortars and a large quantity of ammunition.
Guns and mortars were placed into position for shelling the city and palace, and a few houses near, where the enemy's sharpshooters had established themselves, were seized and occupied.
Peel's guns and Longden's mortars were therefore brought to bear upon it, and kept up a continual fire until 3 p.
The powder is mixed by pounding, the mortars being of rosewood, and the pestles of the same shod with copper; yet the mortar-hoops are iron, which seems to me to be a strange oversight.
The Nitherohy sails to-morrow to join Lord Cochrane off Bahia, with three mortars on board, two 10, and one 13-inch.
Within ten minutes after the parachute landing, the entire force was disposed, with machine guns emplaced, and mortarsin position behind them.
The Jerries are probably bringing up some mortars from the trucks below,” Dick muttered to Max and the others.
Then they’ll try crossfire from those two positions, and when that doesn’t work, they’ll begin tossing grenades and maybe get a few light mortars into action.
The British took possession; dragged up cannon and mortars during the night; pointed them and the guns found in the fortress toward Fort Fayette, and in the morning began a heavy cannonade upon it.
The British had been making mounds in the thickets near the angles of the fort, and that night a detachment of artillerists and engineers crossed the river and mounted guns and mortars upon them.
Instead of doing anything of this description, Taylor now sent down to Point Isabel for mortars and for plank to make into boats, and went there himself.
All this time the people within the walls were in ill-condition, their diet consisting of beans, or very coarse bread, and the enemy's mortars throwing bombs and carcasses among them with little interruption.
From either side cannon and mortars played unceasingly, while the rattle of musketry, the crash of falling houses, the shrieks of women, the screams of children, and the shouting of men mingled in a chaos of sounds.
During this day guns and mortars were brought into the city from our batteries, and placed so as to shell the palace and the great building called the Selimgur.
The lower division, the scow battery, and the mortars joined in this, shelling the hill batteries and the city, but no reply was made by the enemy from the water front.
All the mortars opened again on the morning of the 19th and continued until noon, after which the firing was maintained by divisions, two resting while the third worked.
At four o'clock the mortars opened fire, and at the same moment the enemy, the vessels of the fleet replying as their guns bore.
During the night, mortars and heavy ships' guns were landed, and by great exertion were got into position, the two priests working lustily with the rest.
Men, cannon, and mortarswere sent ashore, and the attack began.
The French mortars thumped away incessantly, and showers of hand grenades were exchanged.
I used both howitzers and mortars so as to let the French know that we could shoot well with both kinds.
A regiment of Kentucky volunteers guarded the mortars and howitzers engaged against Black Fort.
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