The fight was a running fight in parallel columns from the moment when Beatty and Von Hipper turned simultaneously toward the south upon their first contact with each other, until night and fog separated them at the end.
A running fight began, the Brant evidently fearing that the other boats might get across the reef and join in the attack; suddenly she ran aground on a sand-bank, which accident totally demoralized her crew.
Chauncy describes it as a running fight of 3 1/2 hours, the enemy then escaping into Amherst Bay.
I have followed the English authorities and make it a running fight throughout.
If it came to a running fight, their cannonade might sink her, in which case the boy would be drowned along with his captors.
He had a section of the deck forward of the capstan reinforced stoutly to bear the weight of a bow-chaser, on which he placed some dependence in case of a running fight.
Bonnet had weighed his chances and decided for a running fight.
The next Morning they got under Sail, and came down the River, designing only a running Fight.
A Running Fight How a Repulse was Turned into a Victory.
There was a running fight of several miles with the pickets, and finally we met Captain Royall, who came out with his whole command to reinforce the outpost.
For the remainder of the afternoon we kept up a running fight.
In a running fight of fifteen or twenty miles several of the Sioux were killed.
But he was not destined to carry it out; for even before he reached the capes he met a larger privateer, carrying four guns and sixty men, which speedily disposed of him after a running fight of a few minutes.
It was a running fight, broadside to broadside, and the two enemies were fairly matched.
These weapons, mounted aft, one on each quarter, were for the purpose of keeping up a running fight in the event of the outbreak of war.
If they do pluck up courage and come for us, we've got to make a running fight for it, and at the same time watch these fellows' course.
If she were a hostile armed merchantman I'd engage her in a running fight, but she'd blow us out of the water in two minutes.
The fact seems to be that in a running fight, when they are flurried and hustled, Kafirs cannot get the time they require to take good aim, and if you are near them they always shoot over you.
To attempt a running fight, or a stand, would result in a surround, with the enemy pouring in a fire from every rise or else cutting off the water supply.
Most of the thirty got away--made a running fight of it, from the corn, and from tree trunks and cane clumps.
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