Sherman's memorable Georgia campaign and march to the sea, over three miles of Ponton bridges were built in crossing the numerous streams met with, and nearly two miles of trestle bridges.
And to add to it, the men in charge of a ponton train drawn up by the roadside, waiting for an opportunity to lumber away along it, unhitched their horses, mounted them and fled for the James River.
Smith's force crossed the Appomattox by the ponton bridge at Broadway Landing, two miles from Port Walthall and eight from Petersburgh.
He then endeavored to sweep down from the captured intrenchments and take the works on the river bank that covered the enemy's ponton bridge, but the Confederate gunboats opening the attempt was unsuccessful.
The abandoned ponton train was set on fire, and by its flaring light we moved back, marching on and on until morning found us in position with our own division at Malvern Hill.
Footnote 46: The number of wagons in a ponton train will be greatly diminished if it be found that Indian-rubber boats may be used as supports for the bridge.
But Villars was several times on the point of losing all for want of a sufficient ponton equipage.
Meanwhile the efforts of the Engineers were being directed to the development of standard ponton equipment strong enough to carry tanks and the ponderous artillery of the present day.
When war with Germany was declared the United States had developed its heavy ponton equipment, which was standard in design and yet which had changed but little since the Civil War.
The old ponton bridge was first strengthened to carry loads of 5 tons on each of two axles spaced 10 feet or more apart.
At day break the regiment arrived at the Rapidan at Culpepper Mine ford, crossing on a ponton bridge and going into bivouac on the north bank, where they could at least have fires to warm their half frozen bodies.
On the night of the 11th attempts were made to lay the ponton bridges at a point opposite the town.
Three regiments were now thrown across the river inponton boats, and after a severe fight in the streets of the town, and after heavy loss of men, succeeded in dislodging the enemy, and the bridges were completed.
Ponton used a paper saturated with bichromate of potash, and this was one of the earliest photogenic processes.
Ponton a French savan, although it was reserved to Mr. Hunt to bring the process to its present state.
Stimulated by the success of his spring models, Ponton d'Amecourt had a small steam model constructed.
In 1863 the subject of aviation by vertical screws received a fresh impulse from the experiments of Gustave dePonton d'Amecourt, G.
Mungo Ponton observed that light altered and hardened bichromate of potash, and produced yellow photographs with that material.
Picture: Great Ponton Church] Prominent on the south-east pinnacle of this tower is a curious vane in the shape of a fiddle.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ponton" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
