On the same day a party of sappers and miners, under Lieutenants Fowler and Edwards, also marched forward to Mastuj.
When Beynon got back to the nullah, he found the Pioneers extended along the edge, and Oldham's sappers already at work.
Lisle happened to be stationed at the point where the descent was made, and when the explosion took place he seized the rope and, sliding down, joined the two officers and the eleven sappers who had passed.
The sapperswere brought up and, also, a reserve company of Kashmir troops.
The trenching tools were with the main body, but the sappers used their bayonets to make a hasty shelter.
The sappershad been working hard on the road, for the past ten days; but it was still very narrow for a whole division, and three mountain batteries.
The sappers were armed only with carbines, which were uncertain at so long a range; but Lisle, with his rifle, brought down an enemy at every shot.
The party of sappers were to march, the next morning, with the ammunition escort.
At two o'clock they reached the post at Ghizr, which was held by a body of Kashmir sappers and miners.
After a vain attempt to make some impression on the forts with mountain guns, the order was given to advance; and the Ghoorkhas, two hundred strong, and a company of sappers dashed forward into the ravine facing the west wall.
A few sappers had followed, when a box of dynamite exploded with a violent detonation, and the rest of the company were called back.
The Kashmir company had not followed and, as the sappers were at work, they had laid down cakes of dynamite at the head of the pass.
The artillerymen and sappers made a gallant stand, fighting the ghazees hand-to-hand with handspikes and rammers, while the guns poured canister into the advancing masses.
The corps of sappers which he commanded was a remarkable body--a strange medley of Hindustanees, Goorkhas, and Afghan tribesmen of divers regions.
The tribesmen interfered with the roadmaking operations of his sappers in the vicinity of Sheikabad, and some fighting occurred in very rugged country on the 23d.
One of the Shah's infantry regiments and his detachment of sappers and miners had deserted bodily, partly during the march of the previous day, partly in the course of the night.
The 66th with some of thesappers and grenadiers, made a gallant stand round its colours in an enclosure near the village of Khig.
His advice to his chief was to have nothing to say to Macnaghten, to me, or to the sappers, saying Monteath had men enough, and needed neither sappersnor tools.
The centre column then advanced unmolested to the deserted barricade, through which the sappers soon cleared a thoroughfare.
January 24th, and as the leading troops went down they met the sappers coming up.
Fortunately the sappers who, with fixed bayonets, were stationed near the emplacement, stood firm.
The sappers and miners must have suffered severely, as many implements were found on the field.
I climbed down to the bottom of it in which men were walking and the sappers were at work.
I got the sappers to make me a large box which fitted on the back of the vehicle and had a padlock.
Quick as lightning, four sappers of the Guard rush across the road and gain the bridge.
The night before the assault--the 24th of July, if my memory serves me right--the sappers were pushing forward the mines with all despatch.
A whole company of sappers bad been sent for; and because of the need of secrecy for the present, a special appropriation had had to be made to cover the cost of lumber for the tunnel that Dick began, and that the sappers finished.
For one thing, the blasting powder laid ready by the sappers under the pipal trees for explosion the day following, blew up prematurely.
Both sides entrenched themselves and bombarded each other unceasingly, while the sappers carried out long and strenuous mining operations.
American Sapperspulling down the walls of the ruined houses to fill in the German trenches across the roads in the salient.
We filled our haversacks, and burned the town; then encamped close by it all night; and marched next morning, leaving a company of sappers and miners to blow up the works.
As soon as the sappers and miners had constructed the battery, we moved back into the town, and remained until an hour before day.
The Commandant then ordered six of the sappers and two artillerymen to run the 3-pounder howitzer out, and follow him.
Serjeant Barnes, of the Royal Sappers and Miners, was shot through the heart, and a serjeant of the Provincials was also killed, besides eight or nine coloured people being wounded.
At every opening, thesappers and miners were busy blockading the streets, and parties of armed Burghers came galloping in with fresh tidings of ruin, murder, and devastation.
The marines, sailors, and a party of sappers were therefore sent thither to form a raft for the conveyance of some expected supplies for the troops across the Great Fish River, near the mouth.
It was originally intended as a company of sappers and miners, to be attached to Bissell's Engineer Regiment of the West.
But his sappers soon undermined the wall, though Du Guesclin did all he could by a flying force to draw off his attention.
These walls themselves were in bad repair; the succours which had been promised by the Government did not arrive; the English cannon was fast demolishing the outworks, andsappers were undermining the towers.
Sappers and miners were at once set to work, aided by the companies of heavy artillery and details from the infantry.
But up flew a wire to Modder River for a gang of sappers with screwjacks.
In an hour or two a party of sappers can relay a long stretch of line if no culverts or bridges are destroyed.
Oh, that will be the sappers destroying the junction with the Sudbury line,’ he replied.
The crew of the Creole was at once set to sanitary work, in company with the detachment of engineer sappers attached to the expedition.
The sappers ran on ahead, laid the powder bag, and masked it, then a sergeant of sappers lighted the match and shrank back behind a projecting bit of wall.
Now as a general rule the Sappers do not live in the trenches, but go up there each day and most nights, the remainder of the time being spent in dwellings of dubious sanitation and indubitable draughtiness a mile or so in rear.
Suffolk Trench; he knows the strong point at its northern end which the sappers are going to consolidate.
Before leaving the course an officer must be competent to impart instruction to sappers in all their field duties.
The next morning the sappers having put the pontoons to rights, the guns passed over, and we arrived safe at our own camp.
Their cries having awoke those of the adjoining tent, they immediately flew to their assistance, and having relieved them from this new-fashioned man-trap, rats never flew with more agility than did the poor sappers from their lair.
Figure 13 is the camp of two batteries of mounted artillery, or two companies of mounted sappers and pontoniers.
Without a corps of sappers and miners, without a single private who knew how to carry on an approach under fire, they were compelled to attack fortresses defended by the most warlike, practised, and scientific troops of the age.
Each regiment of infantry should have a detachment of sappers armed with axes to act as pioneers, for the removal of obstacles that may impede its advance.
In establishing the batteries of artillery, in opening roads for their manoeuvres, and in arranging material obstacles for their defence, the axes, picks, and shovels of the sappers are of infinite value.
Even this number was found insufficient in his campaigns in Germany and Spain, and he was obliged to organize an additional number of sappers from the Italian and French auxiliaries.
The attacking column is preceded by a company of sappers armed with axes, shovels, picks, crowbars, &c.
These sappers are of the utmost importance, for without them an entire column might be checked and thrown into confusion by impediments which a few sappers with their axes would remove in a very short time.
The Japanese sappers threw up an entrenchment with great rapidity, and placed bridges across one or two ditches which obstructed the advance.
Just before sunrise the Japanese sappers stole forward to attempt to blow in the outer city gate.
A small quantity of treasure was found in one of the large buildings, supposed to be the office of the commandant, which was occupied by the sappers and miners.
The Nemesis then proceeded to the transports in the outer harbour, to take on board part of the 49th regiment, together with a detachment of sappers and miners.
The first order was, to deluge the tarpaulins with water; and while this was being done, the sappers were ordered to dig trenches in the garden, to receive the barrels.
Each assaulting column was preceded by a bomb-thrower and followed by sapperswith sand-bags and entrenching tools.
The soldiers paused while the sappersremoved the abatis, during which time they were exposed to a destructive fire, and lost more men than did the Americans in their headlong attack.
The men, without waiting for the sappers to demolish the abatis in regular style, pushed them aside or pulled them down with their hands, and scrambled over, like rough bush-fighters.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sappers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
