We had hardly completed our arrangements when the enemy charged Captain Smith in large force, following him closely, and no sooner had he passed our lines than our whole line rose up and delivered a volley at short range.
Their entire line broke, fled through the woods over a hill, and took shelter behind their artillery, which now opened fire at short range.
Both lines were charging and met at short range, when a desperate fight ensued, in which the enemy was obliged to retire.
On emerging from the wood the battalions, which had fallen into some confusion, were received by a brisk fire at short range.
The Merrimac began firing as soon as the two iron-clads were within long range of each other, but Worden reserved his fire for short range.
The enemy came on in heavy masses against his centre, charging steadily up to his guns, which fired canister into them at short range, until nearly every man and horse in the battery was disabled, and it was captured.
Wide-angle lenses may cover as much as 100ยบ and are useful for photographing at short range, but the pictures appear distorted.
To milk the street, to squeeze the smaller operators in stocks and extract a profit from them, by alternately raising and depressing prices within a short range; -- said of the large dealers.
Great execution also was done by our field artillery, and in the course of the battle guns were brought up to the crest line and fired direct upon the enemy at short range.
He flung across a pontoon bridge and rafts, and his men tried to cross, but the British field artillery, firing at short range, smashed up many of these bridges and killed his engineers and infantry.
In more than one instance heavy losses are known to have been inflicted on the enemy by machine-gun fire at short range.
But by standing my ground I was enabled to get in a couple of shots at short range, and to bring down two of the finest animals in the herd.
I could see nothing wrong with it, and felt sure it must be perfect, for within the past week I had killed a deer with it at 170 yards and had shaved the heads off a dozen grouse at short range.
We shall be able to get a shot at them at short range.
We have also mentioned the great quantity of pistols and revolvers intended for weapons of defence at short range.
It is a powerful pistol, intended for a weapon of defence at short range.
The batteries were pushed nearer and nearer, and sent in terrible volleys at short range.
Picking their aim and firing at short range, the Southern riflemen sent sheet after sheet of bullets into the charging ranks.
The injury was due to the energy of impact of a bullet, in the high velocity of short range, striking the axis of the diaphysis, in which the greater part of its energy was expended in pushing away a wall of the canal.
The force of impact on the object from which it ricocheted must have been contributed by the velocity of short range, which reduced the striking energy so greatly that the bullet was lodged by the resistance of the tibia and fibula.
This is the effect of a rifle bullet at short range, or possibly a ricochet shot at mid range.
Very naturally the fighting was at short range at every point.
His men suffered terribly from the cannon and musketry fire of a protected enemy at short range, but they succeeded at last in breaking the defenses and forcing their way into the town where they fought inch by inch through the streets.
I am inclined to think these bullets as a class, however, are not more dangerous to the wounded man than the regulation Mauser fired at short range, if the latter either comes into contact with bone or suffers ricochet.
The majority of these injuries were accompanied by a certain degree of systemic shock, and this was more marked in wounds received at a short range.
In cases in which the injury has been produced by a bullet fired at a short range, or in which contact with the nerve has been close, the return of functional activity is very slow.
As Arbuthnot appeared from the mist, several German ships opened on him at short range, and within a very few moments three of his four ships were destroyed.
Noticing that the German bombs were outranging the British he sprang from the trench and dashing forward under hot machine-gun fire at short range, after bombing the enemy's post, leaped in and bayoneted three German bombers.
On the other hand, volley firing has often been attended with decisive results, especially when it has been reserved to the proper moment, and delivered at short range.
These had been lying on the ground behind the crest of the slope until the French appeared, when they suddenly rose up and poured in a murderous volley at short range.
But when the square reserves its fire, and pours in well-aimed volleys at short range, the charge will rarely succeed.
Before this period the small arms designed to be fired with one hand were crude and inaccurate, and were intended to be used only at short range as weapons of defense.
The pistols were next fired for rapidity by the same persons into a butt at short rangeand no hits considered: Savage, 24 shots, time 16 sec.
Same as preceding test, except that the pistol will be fired without aim into a butt at short range, and hits will not be considered.
The shooting is generally rapid-fire work with heavy charges at short range, and is to be commended as being extremely practical.
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