How To Use Artillery In A Sentence

Afghans say the mound where the Americans have made a base was once used by Alexander the Great, who defeated the local tribes of Afghanistan in the 4th century B.C. Since their arrival in April, the members of the 10th Mountain Division, 3rd Brigade, 25th Artillery, have been working to win over the local population rather than subjugate it. Making inroads in Afghanistan
Our militia fired off volley after volley from anti - aircraft artillery.
Nemours showed him at once what use to make of the army under his orders, and having enfiladed his National Guard battalions, and placed his artillery in echelons, he formed his cavalry into hollow squares on the right and left of his line, flinging out a cloud of howitzers to fall back upon the main column. Burlesques
In terms of its careful emphasis on surprise, artillery concentration, and methodical planning, Amiens pointed the way ahead to Alamein.
Those with a hearty appetite for the whiz of bullets, the bang of artillery, dying declarations, famous last words, and eyewitness accounts of the face of battle will not be disappointed.

The land forces are organised into British, Austrian and French divisions, all of which contain recreations of the original infantry, cavalry and artillery regiments that fought during the Napoleonic wars.
Other reporting from the field indicates the use of a combined-arms offensive - employing ground maneuver forces, artillery and aircraft - to effectuate the assault on Samarra.
Scabbards, broken arms, artillery horses, wrecks of gun carriages, and bloody garments strewed the scene.
Panzer Elite Sector Artillery costs 3 command points instead of 4.
The artillery gave us covering fire, ie shot to protect us.
Mark the point where the cannon ball strikes the ground and roll the Artillery dice to establish the bounce distance.
The worst case of fratricide in the Vietnam war occurred during an artillery exchange when the wrong powder charge caused long rounds to hit another U.S. artillery position.
On paper, Italy have enough heavy artillery to do something similar on Saturday evening.
To cease ( artillery fire ) in an area.
They also offer a look into little-known innovations, such as precision artillery shells for howitzers developed for the US Army.
Regiments would have an organic six-gun artillery battery and a reconnaissance troop.
To quell resistance, air strikes and artillery barrages were called in, largely demolishing the town.
The 2,000 arrows and nearly 150 longbows found on board reflect the continuing reliance on traditional methods of anti-personnel artillery.
Put Lady Gaga in anything -- flesh-colored bra, black bustier, meat dress, artillery-undie extravaganza -- and it doesn t matter. A Newsstand Smash
Artillery guns were also used to fire gas shells to deliver poisonous gas onto the enemy.
Artillery bombarded rescue workers in the aftermath of the strike, the aid group added. Times, Sunday Times
The puffed rice said shy: An artillery collapsed start others, did not know others.
The weather was appalling, and German artillery made life unpleasant for the British.
The synergistic effect of brave infantrymen, massed artillery and close air support was why Bastogne held.
Ammunition stocks disappeared as artillery fired projectiles far in excess of prewar projections.
Likewise, other artillery and light artillery companies from both flanks of the city began to fire.
The French had a good breech-loading rifle, the chassepot, also the mitrailleuse, a primitive machine gun, but their muzzle-loading artillery was outclassed by Prussian breech-loaders.
The thud of artillery shook sandy ground underfoot. Times, Sunday Times
Worse yet, their presence frequently meant indiscriminate artillery bombardments against innocent villages suspected of harboring the Vietcong.
The movement was put down with the use of artillery. The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution and Revenge
Enemy forces lobbed a series of artillery shells onto the city.
Chassepot armed infantry easily checked their opponents, but were pounded by artillery and forced to retreat as the Germans found their flanks.
Veterans Affairs that, as a paratrooper and artilleryman, he exchanged fire with enemy combatants and was engaged in an incident of friendly fire. William Devereaux
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‘Boys, do you hear that rattle of musketry and the roar of artillery? ‘he asked his soldiers.
He established guards for his artillery trains and directed that a liaison orderly be sent from each battery to brigade headquarters.
The countryside of Pisa had been ravaged by aerial bombardments and artillery barrages, leaving only a wilderness of roofless houses and smoking craters.
The customs officer was a colonel in the Royal Artillery. CELEBRATING SECOMBE: A Tribute to Sir Harry Secombe
From ahead came the rumble of heavy artillery fire off to the west and the east.
We braced ourselves for the sound of artillery shells being rained into the compound. The Sun
Roxburgh Castle was proof against all but prolonged siege and heavy artillery.
The first wave of troops crossed the bridge, and soon the air on the far side was thick with ordnance - artillery shells, mortars, bullets.
The artillery was deployed to bear on the fort.
The spread of radio sets made tactical separation easier and improved the control of artillery and mortar fire.
Although the guns were reached and many artillerymen sabered, this charge was extremely foolhardy. THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON
It was made by the Confederates on an artillery battery and its supporting infantry in the lines of General George McCall.
On our way back we were covered again with terrific artillery fire.
Torsion catapults continued to be built into the time of the barbarian invasions when they were superseded by a traction artillery piece, the trebuchet.
A few steps away, a kneeling artilleryman lifts one cannonball from a pile, presumably to bring it to the cannoneers for loading. Alexis Soyer and the Rise of the Celebrity Chef
The only sound is the boom of artillery and the only signs of life are bands of stray cats. Times, Sunday Times
The town finally succumbed last week after being pounded with heavy artillery for more than two months.
Whole artillery units had to be diverted to this humdrum task. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
There were also artillery batteries and thousands of yards of interlocking systems of barbed wire defences.
Harold Ings, 86, a bombardier with the Royal Artillery was one of the soldiers whose unit was surrounded by Germans in occupied France.
As national guardsmen pounded Rebel buildings with artillery fire and guided missiles innocent civilians were caught in the turmoil.
Named after famous artillerymen, the larger firebases also served as the field camps for other combat units.
Among their weaponry are surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missiles and artillery pieces.
Some artillery guns fired white phosphorous rounds that create a screen of fire that cannot be extinguished with water.
Therefore, it should be possible to develop a similar precision munition for rocket artillery.
The Royal Artillery (the drop-shorts to us infanteers) has been using a ground-to-air missile called Javelin for donkeys years.
The duty of the British infantry was now to stave off increasingly heavy attacks from cavalry, infantry and artillery. Times, Sunday Times
The gunner's stopped the armoured artillery pieces, ready to fire at a word's notice.
More than half of the aircraft had been damaged beyond use, and most of the larger artillery pieces.
The coffin was carried on a cannon of the Royal Horse Artillery and flanked by artillerymen in ceremonial black and red uniforms.
Heavy artillery was pounding away all the time. Broken Lives
In the huge battles of 1914-15 Russian infantrymen had to attack unprotected by artillery barrages and often lacking even rifles.
However, one development was the use of fewer ranks of soldiers making them less susceptible to artillery fire.
When we got inside the French works, I was astonished to observe how little harm had been done the defenses by the German artillery, for although I had not that serene faith in the effectiveness of their guns held by German artillerists generally, yet I thought their terrific cannonade must have left marked results. She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories
He was a docker, living in Artillery Lane off Bishopsgate, not far from Houndsditch.
Kombat includes all main branches like infantry, tanks, artillery and air force plus other like sappers, reconnaissance, counter-espionage and special elements.
That opened a period of intense growth in scientific knowledge in the area of steamship mechanics, shipbuilding, hydrography and shipboard artillery.
Then there was an ugly confrontation between members of the battalion's Alpha and Charlie batteries -- the term artillery units use instead of "companies" -- that threatened to turn into a brawl involving three dozen soldiers, and required the base police to intervene. Archive 2004-09-01
While the Army tends to view air power as merely an air artillery, the Air Force looks at itself as a strategic force.
Long and short range artillery, rockets, missiles, howitzers, and mortars rained fire and death from the sky.
The battalion also includes fuze jammers that deploy to protect high-value assets from artillery proximity-fuzed munitions. FM 100-61 Chptr 9 Artillery Support
The artillery batteries ' duties quickly changed to extending, improving and maintaining a brigade-sized defensive perimeter.
The Third Artillery and the Montana regiment suffered moderate casualties, but they managed to take the hill.
Elite Republican Guard troops deployed tanks and heavy artillery against lightly armed guerrilla units.
The regular component consisted mainly of cadres of officers, warrant officers, clerks and storemen, and some coastal artillery units.
Round after round of heavy artillery lit huge fires. Times, Sunday Times
When the war ended he re-enlisted and commanded an artillery battery in the Korean War and the Vietnam War.
On this occasion the usual stoppages and checks were multiplied by a brisk artillery 'strafe' upon the front, accompanied by all manner of coloured lights and rockets. The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
Sawyer is a non-com serving with an artillery battalion stationed in Karlsrhue Germany.
In December 1942 non-divisional regiments of anti-aircraft artillery and field artillery were converted into separate battalions.
The biggest daisy chain I found was 100 artillery shells long. The Sun
Leonardo lived at a time when the first artillery fortifications were appearing and the Codice Atlantico contains sketches of ingenious fortifications combining bastions, round towers, and truncated cones.
The Germans blamed the defeat on the fog hampering observations, as well as the artillery barrage. Times, Sunday Times
First regiment, Resolved, That there be allowed and imid out of the heavy artillery. Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
‘You can do better than that, babe,’ I purr with all the self-restraint in the world, still resisting the heavy artillery.
Lord Upjohn too recognised the distinction between the taking of property to prevent it being of use to the enemy and the destruction of property caused by artillery in, for example, retaking a town from the enemy.
Mr Hornby, a bombardier in the Royal Artillery during the Second World War, was ordered on a perilous mission while acting as a dispatch rider in Italy.
They operated up to 12 miles behind enemy lines, looking for hidden enemy targets such as artillery and mortar positions, anti-aircraft emplacements, bunker systems and storage caves.
The figures shown in the picture above depict Connoisseur 8-pounders and Elite 12-pounders along with some Elite Miniatures artillery crew in bicorn, as worn in the 1805-07 campaigns. Russian Artillery
The sonic assault doesn't have to be all heavy artillery.
The Crimean War yielded inkwells made from Russian cannonballs, and the mainly naval Spanish-American war of 1898 produced souvenirs made from submarine cable cut while under fire, and artillery shells made into cigar cutters.
Bliss worked on ballistics during World War I and designed new firing tables for artillery.
Artillery pieces were faked out of long black logs stuck on old truck wheels.
This eliminates the traditional requirement for an area fire or artillery barrage.
Most of the shells fired by artillery guns were high explosive shells which could throw shrapnel over a wide distance in the trenches.
Braving the icy torrents of white water in the Victorian Alps, personnel from the School of Artillery discovered the true meaning of adventurous training.
The first wave of troops crossed the bridge, and soon the air on the far side was thick with ordnance - artillery shells, mortars, bullets.
In battle, the artillery's role is to provide fire support for the infantry, cavalry, armor and other units.
We braced ourselves for the sound of artillery shells being rained into the compound. The Sun
He escaped to England, was posted to the Royal Horse Artillery, served in Gallipoli, France, and Italy, and was decorated with the Military Cross and a Bar. Dunkirk to Dieppe and Beyond
Three weeks after they took it, artillery was slowly carried over to Cavite, which is connected with the mainland by a narrow isthmus, so the rebels hastened to construct The Philippine Islands
The battle raged for several hours but the Zulus spears were no match for the Boers' rifles and artillery pieces.
Other targets would include Pakistani artillery positions, strategic bridges, logistics bases and military supply routes.
The town finally succumbed last week after being pounded with heavy artillery for more than two months.
It will be surrounded by a two metre-deep trench and have only one entrance, which will be protected by artillery pieces and machine gun posts.
The armoured vehicle is protected against 14.5 mm heavy machine gun rounds and artillery splinters.
When McAuliffe finally learned of the 333rd Artillery Group commander's order, he countermanded it immediately and sent word to the displacing units to return to their former positions.
Formed officially in 1775, the American Field Artillery has been the kingpin in the decisiveness of every key battle in which our country has participated.
Equivalent ranks in the Royal Artillery are lance-bombardier and bombardier, harking back to the ancient rank of bombardier, a species of trained artilleryman.
We were too close for their artillery fire. Times, Sunday Times
When we reached about the halfway point, then the mortar and artillery fire started falling.
They comprised 220 combat aircraft, including 80 fighter-bombers and 120 fighters, more than 100 SAM missile systems and 700 antiaircraft artillery guns.
WHITFIELD: And so, Nic, is unapproached by the army there, that they're hoping that the folks firing weapons just might run out of artillery and that's how it ends? CNN Transcript Jan 25, 2007
The word ‘artillery’ at this time still referred to any mechanical contrivances and members of the group were primarily archers at first.
'Twas surely a prodigious fault on the part of the Marquis of Montcalm, to accept a battle from Wolfe on equal terms, for the British General had no artillery, and when we had made our famous scalade of the heights, and were on the Plains of Abraham, we were a little nearer the city, certainly, but as far off as ever from being within it. The Virginians
In fact they put up a spirited fight for much of this contest, but lacked the heavy artillery.
Besides, where was the prolonged preparatory artillery bombardment? Times, Sunday Times
French had just succeeded in taking across the last piece of artillery, a long "culverin" [1] (cannon), named _Madame de Forli_, [2] which had been re-taken from the Spaniards at Ravenna, was so heavy that it sank the first boat, and the poor soldiers, seeing they were lost, escaped as best they could, but many were killed and others drowned. Bayard: the Good Knight Without Fear and Without Reproach
We had an easy mission to an artillery unit.
World War II saw the development of motorized and armored divisions combining infantry, artillery, tanks, and air support.
An artillery barrage followed by a mass infantry attack would punch a huge hole in the German lines. The Sun
Having the high rank of lieutenant general, there was no command for him after Vicksburg, so he resigned his lieutenant generalcy to accept an appointment as a colonel in the artillery division.
After returning to the United States, he served as aide-de-camp to the assistant commandant, U.S. Army Air Defense Artillery School at Fort Bliss, Texas.
To train your artillery to fire on command, you'll need to take matters into your own hands.
A huge number of artillery shells were fired into the area around Vimy Ridge.
The enemy has enough heavy artillery to win the war.
He also says the bombardment lasted for about 90 minutes, but has the infantry attack beginning while the artillery barrage is still going on.
We were too close for their artillery fire. Times, Sunday Times
The division's fighting elements were 8,000 Philippine Scouts, officered by Americans, a US infantry regiment some 2,000 strong, and a regiment of artillery.
Nobody really knows who first mooted the idea of making a gun in Kimberley which could outrange the Boer artillery.
artillery provided covering fire for the withdrawal
The Mayor and Mayoress will host a reception in the parlour for guests before the Remembrance Sunday service followed by lunch at the Artillery Barracks.
British General had no artillery, and when we had made our famous scalade of the heights, and were on the Plains of Abraham, we were The Virginians
The picture was taken in the late Forties, when her father had been demobbed from the Royal Artillery.
An additional battalion was made available for ‘corps use,’ and another battalion as an artillery reserve for the army.
Enemy forces lobbed a series of artillery shells onto the city.
Then the depth of the massed artillery fire could be extended and the process repeated.
The government said they had been killed by artillery fire. Times, Sunday Times
The Nazi artillery dutifully shelled without mercy, and the Luftwaffe bombarded the streets relentlessly.
Next year, when he chooses his branch, he'll be putting in for field artillery.
Ten thousand men would fully cover the artillery and cavalry and perhaps considerably overgo it -- (The return for the 31st of May, just four days before the commencement of the movement, shows the infantry to have been 54,356 for duty, cavalry 9,536, and artillery 4,460, total 68,352. This return was not accessible to me when the within was written.)--150 guns would cover all of our artillery, and they consisted of field pieces, the most of which had been captured from the enemy. Lieutenant General Jubal Anderson Early C.S.A. : autobiographical sketch and narrative of the War between the States,
An artillery battery belonging to the Seventh Virginia Regiment galloped after and did some damage.
The programme of our artillery is a very wonderful one. War Impressions
Regiments of fusiliers were assigned to guard the artillery trains, in which large quantities of gunpowder were stored and transported for the army's ordnance.
An obscure fishing village on an offshore island suddenly bombarded by artillery shells on a quiet Tuesday afternoon. Times, Sunday Times
It was very much an artillery war and in the British army shells, mortars, and grenades accounted for 61 per cent of all wounds, with bayonet wounds accounting for only 0.3 per cent.
A good part of their infantries were pulled out, but more of their armour and artillery came in.
The gunner had to stop the touchhole so that the rammer could not drive a jet of fresh air down the barrel and so ignite any scraps of remaining powder, and Hickson's old and blackened thumbstall betrayed how long he had been an artilleryman. Sharpe's Tiger
Keitel, a professional soldier, served as an artillery officer on the Western Front during the First World War and then as a staff officer.
He also observes that air power has completely eclipsed tanks' role as mobile artillery.
Vega wrote on artillery but he is best remembered for his tables of logarithms and trigonometric functions.
According to the deal, both sides should have withdrawn artillery from the conflict zone. Times, Sunday Times
The enemy has enough heavy artillery to win the war.
During the afternoon he detected an Italian mountain artillery battery working its way up from the road to the pass. Times, Sunday Times
The enemy has enough heavy artillery to win the war.
Kombat includes all main branches like infantry, tanks, artillery and air force plus other like sappers, reconnaissance, counter-espionage and special elements.
Myself, said Panurge, will undertake to enter into their camp, within the very midst of their guards, unespied by their watch, and merrily feast and lecher it at their cost, without being known of any, to see the artillery and the tents of all the captains, and thrust myself in with a grave and magnific carriage amongst all their troops and companies, without being discovered. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
The siege had shown that, with artillery, Henry V had the capability of fulfilling his military ambition.
The use of machine guns and heavy artillery consumed infantry offensives like bundles of straw in a furnace.
So now, all you lucky people whose names I ordered worked into a rather longish piece of boilerplate latin vocative verse can now share in the tranquil blessings of soft breezes in forested glades, mostly free of singing shrapnel and the deep digestive grunt of artillery. Archive 2007-06-01
In 1914 the government had sufficient trust in its citizens to institute a patriotic scheme whereby lathe hobbyists would make fully functioning artillery shells in their garages.
Align Helblaster on target and measure range. 2. Roll the artillery dice for each barrel you wish to fire.
The artillery were fighting.
The enemy opened the attack on our lines with furious artillery fire. Times, Sunday Times
Only the Third Brigade was going home, along with unneeded units, like the artillery battalions and the division's band.
This excludes women from employment in armour, artillery, infantry and combat engineer units/positions.
The event is run under the watchful eye of troops from the Royal Artillery Display Troop.
Besides the four brigades of Khedivial infantry, together with artillery, cavalry, and camelry, and minor details, the Egyptian army also included a large transport column of some 2800 camels and about as many men. Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan
Gallus eventually got his army away in the night, but he left behind 6,000 dead and all of his artillery and baggage.
Roll the artillery dice nine times and add the result.
Government forces unleashed airstrikes and artillery bombardment yesterday as they fought back. Times, Sunday Times
Devereaux was never a paratrooper or artilleryman. William Devereaux
An artillery barrage followed by a mass infantry attack would punch a huge hole in the German lines. The Sun
The lack of artillery was made good by the boldness, initiative, and genius of a single individual.
The 2,000 arrows and nearly 150 longbows found on board reflect the continuing reliance on traditional methods of anti-personnel artillery.
The artillery noise was deafening. The Sun
English colonists gave their artillery colorful names, such as falcon, saker, demiculverin, and culverin, to name a few.
Joseph Tilly was a military man and became a lieutenant in the artillery.
Since artillery is not being used much, do the fire support teams still have the ground-laser teams used for ranging and target identification?
At the same time, seeing the great difficulty with which towed artillery kept up with the armored columns, the Germans began to put more energy into the development of what is nowadays called the self-propelled gun: a medium howitzer mounted on a tank chassis. Deathride
Many casualties succumbed hours after the artillery strike or as a result of treating the wounded or entering the affected area. Times, Sunday Times
the shattering peal of artillery
Which led to the next accident: I impetuously signed up with the Canadian military to pay for my tuition and books, and on graduation, found myself working in a Manitoba artillery base, taking care of 400 twenty-two year olds who had nothing other than boxer's fractures and urethritis wrong with them. Kevin Patterson - An interview with author
Everyone from his secretary to his valet was expected to help, and the artillery regiment plus hundreds of Chinese labourers were roped in when required for heavy work, such as the movement of large trees.
Reductions would affect especially artillery and anti-tank weapons, while procurement of naval vessels would be slowed.
Officials say one of the Marines apparently stepped on a huge landmine made of old artillery shells.
Russian artillery on surrounding hills fired hundreds of shells in between the jet attacks.
The kind of white phosphorus artillery shells used as incendiary munitions are those called burster-type white phosphorus, and Global Security explains the difference between the incendiary and smoke rounds in sufficient detail. Yourish.com
More than 300 gunners from seven artillery units lined the road outside the cathedral.
While he managed to fight as far as the fourth line of trenches, by 3.30 pm practically his whole battalion had been wiped out by German artillery.
Chemical agents can be delivered in artillery shells or missiles, by aerial bombing, or by spraying.
Davout deployed all of his artillery on the French side of the river which was not fordable, so it could only be crossed at one of the two bridges spanning the water so that it could enfilade any Russian attack on the long ridge that was perpendicular to the Russian cavalry, thereby screening the advancing French infantry. Archive 2009-05-01
The cannonade which Bonaparte had heard since the morning, and the explosion of a Turkish gunboat, which was blown up by the artillery of the xebec, led him to fear that our situation was really perilous. Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
Its escarp should be reveted with brick or stone, in order that the enemy may be compelled to form a breach in it by artillery.
Missile troops positioned on hilltops are very handy for protecting artillery units.
Cargo helicopters are heavier models capable of carrying 60 troops, lightly armoured vehicles, or underslung loads such as artillery and munitions.

How To Use Artillery In A Sentence

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