On the battlefield the cannoneers manned drag ropes to maneuver the guns into position.
The command In battery was the signal for the cannoneers to man the handspikes again, Nos.
The Cannoneers without linstock have squatted invisible, and left their cannon; which the Swiss seize.
With one vigorous dash we pushed up the height, just as the cannoneers were preparing to load.
The cannoneers were cut down beside their guns, and the cavalry made repeated charges on our advancing squadrons; nor was it till late in the day they fell back, leaving two thirds of their force dead or wounded on the field of battle.
Horse artillery, that portion of the artillery in which the cannoneers are mounted, and which usually serves with the cavalry; flying artillery.
On top is an ammunition box upon which the cannoneers sit.
His influence with some cannoneers who had served under him during the siege, enabled him to rescue these individuals; and he unhesitatingly did so, though at considerable risk to himself.
You havecannoneers of the new levy--your adversaries have gunners from regiments of the line, the best masters of their art in all Europe!
Our drivers were lounging about the horses, while the cannoneers lay on the green grass by the roadside or walked by the pieces.
As the cannoneers were not all up, the captain and I dismounted and lent a hand in swinging round the heavy trails.
We dashed down the road at a trot, the cannoneers running beside their pieces.
The third gun was just to our right, the cannoneers grouped around the guns, each man at his post.
In one artillery battalion three clergymen were cannoneers at the guns.
The instant we were ordered into position, two or three cannoneers would rush off and get rails, or a log or two, to chock the guns.
We cannoneers were wearily sitting about the guns, wishing to gracious we had something to eat, and could go to bed, even if the bed were only one blanket, on the wet ground.
We gave ourselves up to the influences of the hour, and a very pleasant evening we cannoneers had strolling along, in front of the column of guns, and talking together.
We cannoneers of the Left Section had the guns limbered up, and into the woods, in about a minute; we, double-quicking alongside.
His sharpshooters from the road commanded the cannoneers on the hill, and a desperate effort was made to drive them off the road.
The risky maneuver was executed with lightning speed; the drivers came up at a gallop, wheeled their limber into position in rear of the gun, when the cannoneers raised the trail of the piece and hooked on.
One of Honore's cannoneers was killed while loading the piece; the others pushed the body out of their way, and the service went on with the same methodical precision, with neither more nor less haste.
Fortunately the extra men and horses that he had sent for came up just then, and he had two cannoneers to lend him a hand.
But he continued to shoot straight at them nevertheless, and the third group of cannoneers was fast melting away.
The last of the third group of cannoneers fell and the gun stood alone and untouched, the shell still in place.
Nelson saw one of the armored cannoneers bend forward, firmly grasp a short lever with both hands.
Grouped like cannoneers about their piece stood various red-crested Atlantean artillerymen.
When the head of the Michigan column came into their line of vision, the confederate cannoneers trained one of their guns on the road and the shells began to explode in our faces.
Stuart's cannoneers planted a shell right in their midst, which caused a lively scattering, as they had no desire to be made targets of for that kind of artillery practice.
In St. Michael Square I saw with my own eyes the cannoneers stick their slow-matches into the mud, and heard them declare they wouldn't fire on the people.
The cannoneers stood at their guns, watches in hand.
Straight ahead, through the gap in the battle line, could be seen the guns of the Prairie Battery, going forward, the cannoneers clinging to the limbers, the cavalry escort galloping furiously on either side.
On the crest of the hill across the narrow valley two field guns frowned on the bridge, the cannoneers standing motionless at their posts, seeming to wait only the command to open fire.
Then the cannoneers sprang to life, two vivid streaks of fire spurted from the muzzles of the guns and Al felt, rather than heard, a terrific explosion which seemed to take place all around him at once.
A battery was dragged to the summit;[68] three of the cannoneers were shot in succession before the fourth succeeded in firing off the piece.
Before the battery could be limbered up the enemy were among the guns, shooting the cannoneers and bayoneting the horses.
John Hays was one of the cannoneers of Greene's artillery and he worked all day loading and firing his piece.
The two ships were now locked in a death grip, and so close that when the guns were loaded the cannoneers had to lean into the ports of the enemy vessel to drive the ramrods home.
The horses, already worn out by continued labor, little food and scarcity of water, could hardly make the ascent even with cannoneers pushing, shouting and urging them on by every means possible.
While the cannoneers had been firing at the range, the drivers had been busy with horse exercise and grooming.
So the carriages were taken ahead at a trot, the cannoneers following as rapidly as they could, along shelled roads, through the ruined village of Nantillois, passing the infantry arising from their roadside holes for breakfast.
When the digging was done, the cannoneers passed the afternoon in sleep.
In the afternoon in the dust and heat of a sunshiny day such as Lorraine can produce after a cold spring night, the battery hiked through St. Clermont to Luneville, the cannoneers following the carriages on foot.
Roused at 4 to stand by the guns, the cannoneers had scarcely occupied their posts when shells began to drop dangerously near.
For meals the cannoneers walked, in reliefs, to an expanse of low brush, just over a rise a few hundred yards behind us.
When the gun crews had ceased firing, therefore, the cannoneers went to the drivers' assistance.
The guards, about 3,000 in number, came hurrying to the scene and formed line of battle to prevent a rush of prisoners, while the cannoneers in the forts sprang to their guns.
Right down upon Carlisle's battery they rode, slashing the cannoneers and capturing the guns.
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