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Example sentences for "heavy artillery"

  • The garrison consisted only of a few companies of heavy artillery, and the principal work was still unfinished when Yorktown fell.

  • The two regiments which supported the Confederate batteries were suffering from the heavy artillery fire, and the skirmishers were already falling back.

  • As the left wing of the Prussians advanced, the right changed its position, and having soon met with a small rising ground, they availed themselves of it, by planting it with sixteen pieces of heavy artillery.

  • Besides these were the companies of heavy artillery, and what other troops, on the island and below, the reports do not show.

  • Ten included General Trudeau's command of ten companies of heavy artillery and the Southern Guards who acted as heavy artillery.

  • It was seen that if all, or if a large part, of these guns could be made available for service in France, America would quickly provide for herself a heavy artillery equipment of respectable proportions.

  • In the afternoon the enemy's heavy artillery, which had been very hesitating and uncertain during the first stages of the attack, began to barrage the ground intensely, and continued this fire all the night.

  • The enemy's attack was preceded by a heavy artillery barrage, and by an incessant and wide-stretching blast of machine-gun fire.

  • They prepared for attack by a heavy artillery barrage, controlled by low-flying aeroplanes and co-operating with the infantry.

  • The British attack was supported by a heavy artillery fire, while a cloud of rockets continued to fall in showers throughout the contest.

  • They did not do much more than the bringing on of a heavy artillery duel, in which they were severely worsted and driven back to camp.

  • This fact, coupled with their great strength in heavy artillery, leads to the supposition that they are employing material which may have been collected for the siege of Paris.

  • The Third Division commenced a further advance, and had nearly reached the plateau of Aizy when they were driven back by a powerful counter-attack supported by heavy artillery.

  • We received splendid help from the Austrian [Transcriber: original 'Austrain'] heavy artillery at Maubeuge.

  • This is the third day the troops have been gallantly holding the position they have gained against most desperate counter-attacks and the hail of heavy artillery.

  • Both flanks of the Turkish line were subjected to heavy artillery fire.

  • They then started an offensive which was stopped by heavy artillery fire.

  • Other parts of the front, especially near Olyka and along the Bessarabian border, were again subjected to heavy artillery fire.

  • The Russians had to give ground, but soon afterward started a strong counterattack, supported by heavy artillery fire, and regained the lost ground, capturing some 600 officers and men.

  • The enemy came on recklessly in the face of a heavy artillery fire.

  • During the subsequent day our forces along the railway developed a significant resistance against an enemy superior in number and backed by heavy artillery.

  • These reinforcements were equivalent altogether in value to five army corps, a division of cavalry, a territorial division, and sixteen regiments of cavalry, plus sixty pieces of heavy artillery.

  • The enemy, who had at his disposal a considerable quantity of heavy artillery, directed his efforts at first upon the coast and the country to the north of Dixmude.

  • April 2--Heavy artillery fighting is on between the Meuse and the Moselle; night infantry fighting takes place in the Forest of Le PrĂȘtre.

  • A year later, to the day, on the first of August, 1915, we had two hundred and seventy-two batteries of heavy artillery.

  • Baker, Secretary of War: In the matter of heavy artillery, in August, 1914, we had only three hundred guns distributed among the various regiments.

  • The reenforcements sent to the French army of the north totaled as a result five army corps, a division of cavalry, a territorial division, sixteen cavalry regiments, and more than sixty pieces of heavy artillery.

  • The immediate vicinity of Metz furnished the German army with a vast quantity of heavy artillery, which played a decisive role in the Battle of Morhange.

  • This first day's fighting on the Marne revealed one of France's chiefest needs--heavy artillery.

  • Railways allow of the assembly of these forces (inclusive of heavy artillery, material and technical stores) in the neighbourhood of Beersheba by the end of October.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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