Utiliser "artillery" dans une phrase

1. The looming thunder of artillery from the previous night had stopped but still the diesel-growl of moving men and transport played out in the background

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2. bar that he had served with the royal artillery during the War

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3. The expense of the ordinary peace establishment of the colonies amounted, before the commencement of the present disturbances to the pay of twenty regiments of foot ; to the expense of the artillery, stores, and extraordinary provisions, with which it was necessary to supply them ; and to the expense of a very considerable naval force, which was constantly kept up, in order to guard from the smuggling vessels of other nations, the immense coast of North America, and that of our West Indian islands

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4. As the superiority of the modern artillery, too, over that of the ancients, is very great ; it has become much more difficult, and consequently much more expensive, to fortify a town, so as to resist, even for a few weeks, the attack of that superior artillery

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5. There was one thing that never failed during the unloading and swimming and that was the Turkish artillery that bombarded the beaches at every chance

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6. We believed it because the Turkish artillery was lashing the beaches firing down from Achi Baba but what really convinced us was that ‘Asiatic Annie’ was firing her heavy shells at both V and W Beaches

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7. As we moved forward we could see the outposts in front of us and we prepared to make a dash for them but before we got anywhere the artillery behind them opened up with shrapnel shells and we had to go to ground to find cover from the murderous hail that met us

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8. “Alright you lot I know things got a bit hairy there for a moment but it’s not so bad now in fact we are going to try to flank this position further over on the left where his artillery doesn’t seem to be as well set up as it is here

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9. Breaking from cover we rushed the forward post yelling like Dervishes the CSM was right and the artillery covering this sector was very light

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10. They were smarter than that and quite content to sit in their strong points protected by their artillery and machine guns and just slaughter us when we charged them

11. Like last time there was no way we could push on without artillery support which we didn’t have and there were problems with the ammo supplies so we were pinned down again

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12. In the end the attack failed miserably as we couldn’t get anywhere near to our objectives due to the overwhelming superiority of the Turk artillery and machine guns in fact we ended up no further forward than when we started

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13. “The rest of the Brigade was trying to push up towards us but they were being slaughtered were they stood so naval artillery was called in to silence the machine guns but this did no good because the shells could not find them let alone smash them

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14. We had gone down to the beach and were enjoying our swim when a salvo of Turkish artillery shells was fired at us

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15. We stood in the reserve trenches as our Company had been designated in the second wave and as we looked foreword we could see the first wave of the 88th Brigade stood in the front line trenches waiting and at 2:20pm our artillery bombardment began

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16. But within minutes the Turkish artillery responded with heavy shrapnel and we could hear it pinging and rattling like hailstone on the front trenches were the casualties and dead had began to pile up before a single man had started advancing towards the Turkish lines

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17. And back at our lines our reserve trenches were also chocked with dead and wounded from the Turkish artillery barrage

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18. Then the artillery and machine guns started up again and I thought god they can’t be sending another wave forward into this but they did the murdering bastards

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19. We marched on for most of the day and at times we were forced to halt so that convoys of artillery pieces and horse drawn supply wagons could pass us on their way to the front

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20. In the fields we passed now there was Battery after Battery of artillery both light and heavy and near then huge piles of shells were being stacked in dumps

21. Later on we reached Albert and we marched into it under a railway arch that led into the town the further in we got the more we could see that it had taken a real pasting from artillery fire

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22. Around us we could hear the creaking of harness and the rattle of curb chains and smell the horsey smell that marked either s supply of artillery unit that had stopped beside the road

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23. The morning hate had been fierce earlier with trench-mortars and artillery firing both ways just to welcome us back to the front

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24. S/Sgt Cocker had his rifle with him and kept a lookout for German patrols and snipers but a massive artillery duel that happened before we arrived yesterday must have cleared them out for the time being

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25. Also the Infantry, Artillery, Engineers, Pioneers and many more service personnel as well as troops from all over the Empire sat in the carriages or corridors as the train thundered on

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26. The vessel was close enough, however, to hear the roar of artillery and the rattle of muskets to know that a battle was going on

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27. “No listen we will have so much artillery and ammunition that the Hun will be blasted into submission

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28. “That will be a first, because I’ve never known us to have enough artillery or even shells to do anything let alone blast the enemy into surrender

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29. In the fields at the roadside Artillery Batteries were stationed everything from howitzers to feildguns and then of course there was the ever present cavalry detachments

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30. “So I take it you didn’t see the chap out by the old artillery limber that’s a shame because you are dead then?” I looked through the eye holes again to where he had said and quartered the ground but I saw nothing

31. “Frank’s probably right the Brass just want a sample before the main attack then they and the artillery will know what they are up against

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32. “In about an hour’s time the artillery will put a barrage on concentrating on the German wire it won’t be anything big just enough to get them to send a wiring party out

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33. Things were beginning to hot up now on the ‘Shooting Gallery’ (front line) as the Germans stepped up there artillery fire and we also had a lot of ‘Flying Pigs’, ‘Rum Jar’s’ (trench mortar rounds) and ‘Obus’ (howitzer rounds) coming over

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34. Of course with this amount of activity going on we were bound to attract more attention from the German artillery and a lot of ‘Coal Scuttles’ (large howitzer rounds) and 5

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35. He continued saying to us that we had nothing to fear from the Huns because the artillery bombardment was going to be of a duration and ferocity never seen in a battle before

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36. on Gallipoli I don’t trust any Staff when they start talking about artillery and how we will have a walk over

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37. The raid went off without serious incident we made it to the German trenches and shook them up a bit but there artillery gave us a bit of concern as we made our way back to our lines

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38. ” After the briefing was finished we got once more to attack the mocked up trenches but this time we had men with flags simulating the creeping artillery barrage whilst we walked in a line behind it and wondered to ourselves what this would be like with more than seventy pounds of equipment on your person

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39. The first salvo had gone off with one big crash but now the artillery rippled all along and behind the front and you could seethe flashes going off like the devils light show

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40. I went to the trench periscope and watched as the opening salvos of fire from our artillery landed on the Hun positions

41. “Your right Nobby we could have done with some of this artillery it would have saved quite a few lives

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42. But it wasn’t that much quieter in the reserve trenches especially when the German artillery sent a barrage over and plastered them

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43. ” The artillery had been concentrating on the German rear areas but now some of it concentrated on the front line again and we could see the muzzle flashes of the guns behind us lighting up the sky

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44. The artillery are using shrapnel to cur the wire in order to do this the fuses on the shells must be cut exact

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45. can’t spot for the artillery and tell them where there shells are landing which isn’t very good for us

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46. Well you listen to me they told us that on Gallipoli and half of our men were wiped out in the first half hour this was done by the troops we had been told would be finished by our artillery”, and I glared at him

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47. Moving into ‘No Man’s Land’ going about one hundred yds we looked for the white tapes that marked the start point but they had been blown away by the artillery barrage

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48. The Germans however seemed content to let their artillery deal with any further attacks that might be forming up

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49. Rather than attack again they were quite content to let the artillery have a go at us and they went at it with a vengeance as shrapnel hailed down onto us

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50. I had ceased fire for the moment waiting for the next two that would go when all of a sudden the German artillery opened up again

51. But just before they went over the top the German artillery put a strafe down on our trench and we had to take shelter once more in the bunker entrance

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52. The artillery moved on as I returned to our machine gun post setting up the Lewis gun again the RSM and Colonel shouted farewell and then went over the top, as I poured covering fire into the German trench

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53. I tried to make him understand over the artillery barrage that I would try to help him as best I could because despite his terrible injuries he was still alive

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54. The next set of large artillery flares went off overhead and I moved over to where he was curled up into a foetal position with his knees drawn up to his chin he was keening quietly in his throat and I touched his shoulder but he flinched like a whipped cur

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55. “It will be no picnic getting back to that shell hole now even if it is behind us in fact it will not be safe at all listen?” I heard the German machine guns and artillery open up for the second day running the sun was up now and it was getting warm in the crater

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56. But this was a mute point now as the German artillery smashed the silence and any feeling of safety that I may have had

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57. “I will wait for the artillery strafe to pass by and then I will make a dash for it because whatever happens I must try to get back to the shell hole

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58. I thanked them and then waited for the artillery strafe to pass over the top of us as it did I slipped over the lip of the crater the last thing I heard was Mickey and Fred wishing me good luck and god speed

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59. Artillery rained down on my hand like hot steel

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60. The troops were paraded, and as His Excellency entered the Square, a 14-gun salute was fired by the Artillery

61. Pouring in heavy volleys from their carbines, the cavalry then surged forward, the enemy's right flank falling back in good order before the Rough Riders, who were now enfiladed by Rubin's mountain artillery, and the infantry supports entrenched along the ridge

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62. A landing had to be effected on a hostile coast, artillery and supplies moved forward through ten miles of difficult country, open at all sides for surprise attacks from the enemy

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63. I always thought they were called artillery, but was not about to correct the Instructor

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64. Colonel Ordonez, the Spanish inventor and artillerist, succeeded Colonel Melgar, commanding the artillery, and had personally ranged the position with fearful accuracy

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65. When the artillery duel had ceased, though there was no indication that the enemy's guns had been silenced, the regiments started to pour down the trail leading through the thickly wooded valley intervening between El Pozo and the enemy's position on San Juan

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66. Preparatory action holds infantry to cover with artillery at the front, until the shelling has produced sufficient effect for a general advance

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67. The configuration of the ground seldom admits guns remaining far in rear of the advance, but there is no justifiable hope in advancing strong masses of troops against an entrenched position without preparatory artillery action, and no assault should be ordered until the artillery duel has silenced the enemy's guns and shaken the defending forces

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68. General Shafter, however, intended that the columns should advance quietly through the woods, and stand ready to make the charge when the artillery had prepared the way and Lawton's Division had swung to flank the position on the right

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69. Every rifle from fort and entrenchment blazed at once at the silken globe; the artillery re-opened, and bullets and shells poured through the tree-tops, dealing death and destruction among the men in the crowded trail

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70. ” The whole command would have been withdrawn, and the artillery allowed to prepare the way, had not the trail been so packed that a retrograde movement would have cost hundreds of lives, besides demoralising the survivors

71. Grimes’ Battery had reopened, and as there was imminent risk from our own shells falling short, he sent orders to the artillery to cease firing while the troops deployed

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72. There was a murmur of hoarse commands, bugle-calls rang out, while the roar of artillery, incessant crash of rifles and bursting shells, drowned the imprecations of the soldiers and the agonised cries of the wounded

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73. Carefully entrenched, and hardly touched by our artillery fire, this small force, aided by machine guns and two nine-pounders, had torn up their assailants in the valley below with no appreciable loss

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74. The enemy also had smokeless powder, and neither battery nor trench could be located; while the United States Artillery and the Springfields of the National Guard made a continual smoke target, and obscured the view

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75. In taking the ridges our aggregate losses had been 1140 officers and men in a battle that artillery alone could have made untenable

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76. As at San Juan, they had moved into range before the artillery had paved the way, and they suffered severely in consequence

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77. Apparently the Army had conducted an efficiency study at their artillery test grounds

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78. Of course, the Army had not used horse-drawn artillery for more than seventy years by that time

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79. At midnight the artillery moved to San Juan, and then the silence was broken only by groans of the wounded and hoarse challenges from the guards

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80. Thus again the worn-out cavalry and infantry were without artillery support, in a country topographically a gunner's paradise had reconnaissance been made for the selection and preparation of suitable sites

81. The artillery officers had awaited the formulation of a plan of campaign, and several told me that they received no definite orders until late on July 2nd, when the guns were moved laboriously through the woods, to a ridge on the left of El Pozo, too late to be of effective service

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82. The failure of the artillery in Cuba may be chiefly attributed to the lack of mobilisation manoeuvres in the American army

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83. Without sufficient artillery he could do nothing, and just as the fleet steamed out and accomplished for itself the main object of our expedition, he cabled the following despatch:

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84. Our artillery now had the range, and opened at 4 pm

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85. The Author at that stage was at school in Katima Mulilo in the Caprivi (part of South West Africa or Namibia as it is called today) and as revenge for the Kasinga attack the terrorists fired Stalin Organs and other artillery at the town killing ten soldiers a few months later

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86. Artillery and aerial bombing followed suite for it must be remembered that the terrorist is either in a trench or on his stomach behind a tree or in a hollow

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87. There was no fire support artillery on mountains or the shelling of suspected positions as used in Vietnam in any of these wars

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88. You really should only fire artillery in direct support of troops in actual combat

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89. What stopped them were Soviet artillery in the form of Stalin Organs and a serious lack of leadership from Roberto

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90. What are important are the tactics used and basically the Special Forces lads directed the air strikes from the ground and fast moving artillery with UNITA and 32 Battalion acting as infantry

91. Next in 2004 radicals in Iraq tried to do so again by exploding an artillery shell but it is unknown if they understood that it contained the binary precursors of sarin

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92. They may have thought it was a normal artillery shell which they use for IED

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93. Some analysts noted the drop in attacks fit with the withdrawal of US troops in Afghanistan, that attacks supposedly once used to kill terrorists were actually being used as artillery against targets in Pakistan, targets that US planes could not have bombed without an international incident

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94. We co-operate with the artillery

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95. An artillery barrage was underway, something often heard sporadically from our aerodrome

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96. Artillery spotting was not my highest priority, though

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97. I was just thinking about artillery spotters, and there they were, poor buggers

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98. There were millions of them, and quite honestly that’s what artillery is for

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99. Then they progressed into infantry squad tactics in the open field against other types of units like cavalry, or steamers and artillery

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100. When no one could ascertain how many guns a major general was due, Major Harris had instructed the staff sergeant in charge of the artillery to fire three volleys, on the theory that what was good enough for a funeral would be good enough for the generals