Mr. MacAckus had followed and unlimbered his heavy artillery.
When he reached the bridge he saw two unlimbered guns, the infantry crossing the bridge, several overturned carts, and frightened and laughing faces among the troops.
But the guns remained loaded, the loopholes in blockhouses and entrenchments looked out just as menacingly, and the unlimbered cannon confronted one another as before.
Here he dismounted, and stopped beside the farthest of the four unlimbered cannon.
Stuart was driven back, and was returning doggedly, when the gun for which he had sent, galloped up, and unlimbered in the road.
The guns were rushed toward the spot, unlimbered on a rising ground, and their thunder rose suddenly above the forests.
Then the four, as prearranged, unlimbered the work rocket they had picked.
Struggling not to think of what might be going on within the Magellan--their earphones registered nothing except each other--they unlimbered the long tube of the rocket launcher and aimed point-blank at the foe.
Burl and Haines, at the main entry port, unlimbered the long rocket launcher that had been set up in the passageway.
Waterhouse unlimbered his guns again, wheeled them a little more to the east, almost northeast, and opened a fire which raked the long lines and again held them in check.
The Rebels were advancing when he unlimberedhis guns, but his quick discharges of grape at short range threw them into confusion.
Instead of rushing up with a bayonet-charge upon Sherman's camp, and routing his unformed brigades in an instant, as he might have done, he unlimbered his batteries and opened fire.
Promptly other batteries joined those confronting us on Cemetery Hill, and by the time Latimer's guns were unlimbered the guns on both sides were thundering.
Instantly we galloped to their front andunlimbered our guns at close range.
None of us was hurt, and in a few minutes all four of our guns were unlimbered and opened on them most vigorously.
The guns were unlimbered and loaded just in time to fire at a column of the enemy's cavalry which had started down the opposite hill at a gallop.
My gun then moved forward and unlimbered close to a bridge about two hundred yards below the town, where we took position on a bluff in the bend of the river.
By the practice thus afforded, the Federal batteries had gotten a perfect range, and by the time our guns were unlimbered we were enveloped in the smoke and dust of bursting shells, and the air was alive with flying iron.
Turning out of the road to the left, we unlimbered and commenced firing.
Here we lay during the night with guns unlimbered near Gen.
A battery had unlimberedin the plain between the zeriba and the ridge, and was beginning to shell the summit of the hill.
At half-past six the Horse battery unlimbered at the water's edge, and began to fire obliquely up and across the river.
He took off his helmet and handed it to one of the native policemen while he unlimbered the revolver more firmly in the direction of the seamen.
Prince Kraft tells the story of how at Sadowa he unlimbered his guns two hundred yards in front of the church of Chlum, and how the Austrian reply fire almost invariably pitched upon the steeple.
One of the Boer guns unlimbered and attempted to open fire, but was overwhelmed by the wave of horsemen.
Now the 75th and 18th Field Batteries came rattling and dashing to the front, and unlimbered at one thousand yards.
He immediately unlimbered his pieces, when it scattered in every direction.
Made reckless by this forbearance, the rioters began to close up in more dangerous proximity, when the howitzer was unlimberedand pointed down the avenue.
Stuart promptly drew his men back to the edge of the wood, unlimbered and posted his cannon.
Stuart's cannon had unlimbered in a good place, where they were protected partly by a ridge, and their deep booming note soon showed the gunboats that they had an enemy worthy of their fire.
Ewell's men came on, unflinching, until they unlimbered their own guns and began to reply with fierce and rapid volleys.
At the trenches of the defenders, batteries, with horses falling and being cut away in an instant, dashed to the line, unlimbered and poured in their scattering salutations of zero shrapnel to the men in front.
German field guns were unlimbered and hurled their shells screeching at the Russians.
While we thus advanced into the plain, the artillery unlimbered behind us, and the Spanish cavalry, breaking into skirmishers, dashed boldly to the front.
As they mounted the little rising ground, they wheeled andunlimbered with the speed of lightning, just as a strong column of cavalry showed above the ridge.
Some of Ransom's guns were unlimberedand opened fire at long range.
With characteristic audacity, he actually unlimbered his pieces and gave them a charge or two right in their teeth; then limbering to the rear he took successive new positions and repeated the performance.
At length the arrival of a battery of field guns, which unlimbered at close range, induced the survivors to surrender, and they were disarmed and carried off as prisoners with the retreating army.
Our Mounted Infantry in the village were indistinguishable, but away on the spur to the north-east of Royston a couple of batteries of Horse Artillery were unlimbered and were pushing their guns up to the brow of the hill by hand.
As we drew nearer the Turkish lines we proceeded with extreme caution lest we ran into their patrols, and shortly after midnight halted, noiselessly unlimbered the guns and dug them in.
The battery was galvanized into action by a sharp order, and in a few seconds the guns were unlimbered in a position facing due east, whence the rattle of musketry came in increased volume.
They were lucky, for a shell had previously burst in the exact spot where the gun was unlimbered a second or two later, which would certainly have obliterated the entire team had it not been for that providential patch of heavy ground.
The pieces were unlimbered and instantly put into action at point-blank range, the skirmishers giving way to the right and left to make way for the guns.
There we unlimbered to dine, and in the afternoon went on towards our destination.
I had unlimberedon the side of the road, not in any one's way.
We are not sorry when we are away from the immediate vicinity of the mines, and unlimbered by the roadside near the old Red Gate Inn.
The first time he stepped out into the barnyard the turkey gobbler challenged him to mortal combat and unlimbered for action without waiting for his challenge to be accepted.
She circled around him with her ears laid back, and when any one approached too near she unlimbered her heels for action.
At that hour the 69th and 13th batteries, quitting the position from which they had silenced the Boer artillery, moved through the town, and unlimbered on rising ground between the eastern boundary of Dundee and the Sand Spruit.
The 7th battery unlimbered and was about to open, when British ambulances approached the donga, and men in khaki were seen intermingled with the Boers.
On the slightly elevated land in front of the tavern the Yankees had unlimbered twenty Napoleon cannon, and along the side of the ravine they had erected breastworks of logs and earth.
Two Federal batteries came forward in a gallop and in a minute's time unlimbered and began firing against Hill's division, the twenty guns of which I have spoken giving them as good as they sent and a little better.
The guns had previously been unlimbered and were ready for action, with their muzzles pointing to the enemy.
The whole line then advanced and occupied the enemy's position, the latter retreating across the plain in the direction of Brandfort, taking their guns with them, which they unlimbered at intervals to shell the cavalry.
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