Then suddenly, on either side, the wall was lined by the British, who at once opened a tremendous fire on the mass below.
After waiting an hour, to be sure that the last of the English were sound asleep, he ordered a tremendous fire to be opened on the hollow and village.
Lieutenant Douglas, of the Black Watch, under a tremendous fire, advanced and attended to Captain Gordon, who was badly wounded, and to others of the Gordons.
The stormers, under a tremendous fire from an invisible enemy only eighty yards away, forced their way up the steep and stony slopes, encountering wire fences in which many were caught and delayed.
The retreat was covered by the mounted men, and by a squadron of the Imperial Light Horse; it was not effected without difficulty, as the Boers poured in a tremendous fire, moving their guns forward to shell the infantry.
The French observed it; perceived an opening in the line, and threw in a tremendous fire on the Germans, that caused a momentary confusion.
Exposed to a tremendous fire of grape from the British guns, and a withering fusilade from the light infantry, they pressed steadily on, and, by strength of numbers, succeeded in gaining ground in front of the heights.
The boats were not, however, thirty yards from the shore before this was lined with dark figures who opened a tremendous fire of musketry.
Already, however, the Russians had got their guns on to the high ground, and these opened a tremendous fire on the British troops.
The echoes had not died away when a tremendous fire of musketry was opened by the Poles hidden behind the abattis.
Crouching among the trees the Ashantis opened a tremendous fire.
The Ashantis kept up a tremendous fire, but the marines and sailors pushed their way steadily through the wood on either side.
For the first two or three hundred yards they encountered no serious opposition, and they were then received by a tremendous fire from an unseen foe in front.
The command moved up the causeway, under a tremendous fire of artillery and musketry, till they reached some old buildings of adobe, where they were obliged to get a momentary shelter.
There they hung, like a cluster of bees, whilst a tremendous fire of artillery opened upon them from the work.
It seems that the 42nd drove the enemy's outposts helter skelter out of the village, and then pushed on for nearly a quarter of a mile, when they were checked by a tremendous fire.
As they passed along through the bush, the Houssas, who had been drilled by Captain Rait, RA, kept up a tremendous fire, yelling and shouting.
A quantity of rubbish was found near the walls, on which the ladders were planted by Captains Peter Richards and Watson, when, in face of a strong body of Tartars, who opened a tremendous fire on them, they began the hazardous ascent.
Marmont, standing on the French Hermanito, was thunder-struck at beholding the plain suddenly covered with enemies, and a tremendous fire was at once opened upon the advancing British.
There he stood under a tremendous fire, and maintained his position unhurt, though the flag was completely riddled with shot.
His comrades would not desert his body, but carried it off under a tremendous fire, the two wounded men, who were still able to use their rifles, covering the retreat with their fire.
Scarcely, however, had they won that position when the Egyptians opened a tremendous fire from an intrenchment farther back.
As the ships successively brought up, they opened a tremendous fire on the batteries and sea wall, where the shot was so well directed that it would have been almost impossible for any human beings to have stood their ground.
The two squadrons reached their destined positions at the same time, when they both opened a tremendous fire, literally raining down shot and shell upon the hapless garrison.
The Rodney was now seen standing in to support the Agamemnon when she took the ground, and though exposed to a tremendous fire, she continued fighting her guns.
Suddenly, as we were looking about us, and thinking what a nasty sort of place it was, we found ourselves exposed to a tremendous fire from a horde of banditti, who had hitherto been concealed behind a breastwork on the opposite bank.
The guns in the works were wheeled round, and opened a tremendous fire on the dense masses of the French drawn up behind other parts of the entrenchments.
The whole Turkish army turned out, and suddenly opened a tremendous fire of musketry against the ramparts, while the storming parties moved forward.
Directly we had started I had got the cook to make a tremendous fire in the galley, and had put six eighteen-pounder shot in it.
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