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...Ali had succeeded in overthrowing his father and brother. The morning saw a siege train of heavy artillery being hauled by palace elephants and des... ...n constructing battery positions to bombard the walls. As many unfortunate sepoys were killed by artillery fire from the fort, their places were tak... ...re sheltered areas of the fort. Now even trips to the well were becoming hazardous from exploding shells and bullets from snipers, positioned on a r... ...rt. Some of the sepoys decided to storm the British defences and their slaughter from the fort’s artillery gave the British the first clue of the i... ...ing a large semicircular trench with salients and a protecting ditch beyond the range of the fort artillery and the British, observing through their... ...the tightening up of the defences. The ditch surrounding the fort had been scarped and mines and shells buried and horizontal row of poles (fraises)... ...portable obstructions of sword blades - were constructed to block any breaches in the walls; more shells, combustibles and quicklime were assembled ... ... the siege, the enemy gunfire was not too hazardous, but the mutineers started to use incendiary shells and even flaming arrows and their small arms... ...f sustained, would be impossible to repel. For a brief moment whilst they gathered, the sound of artillery was stilled. Then, as if in a dream, the...

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...en aiming at the temple rising at the centre of the town below us. But the shells all had missed this target. And we all were starting to get nervous.... ...er from so many throats spread over the town like the rumble of a sweeping artillery fire. And the mob downstairs shook and quaked like a tide rising ...

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...the Flash Storm, he had never even held a pistol, let alone handled heavy artillery. His inexperience, coupled with the overwhelming fear that flled... ...exi knew she had one chance to get a drop on the Seekers. While the heavy artillery was focused on the building, she headed straight across the road... ...eet. They dodged around debris from the destroyed buildings and burnt out shells of cars. Destiny tripped over something and fell, scraping her elbo... ...dy armor.” John smirked. “Good. Then let’s get ready. You have any heavy artillery or anti-tank weaponry?” “ A litle. A couple of anti-aircraf missi... ...y. We have allies hiting them from the back. Let’s give ‘em some support. Artillery and snipers, make your way to the top of the Apocalypse Dozer a...

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...y was equipped and trained for fire support, defence against armoured planetary tanks and basic anti-jet capabilities. They had come with their field artillery and were supplied with self-guided missiles and a new batch of war drones and fighter robots. Their previous set of bots and drones had all been used up. They came to a base that was in urgent need of repair and the...

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...y was equipped and trained for fire support, defence against armoured planetary tanks and basic anti-jet capabilities. They had come with their field artillery and were supplied with self-guided missiles and a new batch of war drones and fighter robots. Their previous set of bots and drones had all been used up. They came to a base that was in urgent need of repair and the...

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... wing or an eagle's beak is almost equally good; he likes to have a bag of sea shells handy, or a shark's tooth as a protection against shipwreck; tho... ...tions, and furniture of all sorts; horses in one; in another bows and shooting artillery; in a third castlets, cuirasses, and leather armor; and so in... ...sistance gave no security, for what native arms could withstand the Portuguese artillery? A tender of friendship was no guarantee of safety, for the P... ...over his vessel uninjured da Gama ordered his ships to stand off and use their artillery on the Khadija. His entire fleet thus engaged all day long i... ...ut constructing a fortified camp, the outer works of which was defended by his artillery, so planted as to command the immediate surrounding district.... ...s, animals which the Totonacs had never before seen, and behind these came the artillery, which, in the eyes of the natives, were supernatural agents,... ...hange of words which neither could understand, the natives began blowing conch-shells and were answered by blasts from a trumpet by Tasman's men, and ... ...rming vessels for domestic use. The tools of these pigmies were made of mussel shells which were very plentiful in the waters along the straits. But w... ...straits. But what was most surprising the natives had means of tempering these shells and making them sufficiently hard to cut bone or any substance s...

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...there is also greater conviction. P Aegean shells, beach shells, shells in a woman’s hands, shells in a child’s han... ...atly, as if of rock. One crewman, not much bigger than a monkey, dove for shells while we crept through shallows. Pink shell in hand, treading a wav... ... angel fish lower down, perhaps frightened. While the monkey-man dove for shells, youngsters swam from small boats, hailing us, boarding us, some br... ...preading colonies of butterflies, floating celery stalks, turtles, heaving shells and driftwood—beaching itself with footprints that fill with seepag... ... would mow down the Swiss...the Swiss kept rushing toward us...it was our artillery that destroyed them...I fought on my great Conde, the chestnut yo... ...e, pitched higher than his, also lacked accomplished delivery. The silent artillery of time was firing at us. I heard the country’s slaves crying ou... ...ly days, men fought with antiquated guns and poor equipment; however, our artillery, at least, was superior. Our soldiers were fortunate to have fi... ... fields of battle, designate more than battle lines, regiments, infantry, artillery, cavalry, fortifications...those pins are men, my men, my countr... ...ce-to-face fighting all day. Rifles. Pistols. No help from our cavalry or artillery. Pine woods surround. Trees close together. Weather poor. Fred d...

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...g a close-up foundation for her manuscript. The hailstorm that was once like artillery against her flimsy enclave now seemed a milder sleet tapping an... ... in their home in a scantily lit morning. The trailer was the fortress from artillery shells, taps, and scrapes. For a moment she listened to its sp... ...home in a scantily lit morning. The trailer was the fortress from artillery shells, taps, and scrapes. For a moment she listened to its splendor wit... ...njoying the process, coconut tonic vendors putting straws in the cut cocunut shells and fruit on a stick salesmen pushing their glass ice and fruit ca... ... drained. Had she not felt like a florid group of cells shot out like random shells into the void that made up the cosmos, she would have been satisfi... ...ng them out the window.ﾁO Now if they conveyed this maybeﾁN" They heard two shells of petrous, ice-glazed snow simultaneously strike into a lower pa... ...e saw that there were no emergency vehicles and merely more of these emptied shells of unwanted strangers littering her drive. Unable to park there, ... ...side all was being barraged in the cacophony of rap, hip hop, or some other artillery that she had neither knowledge of nor empty labels to place on ... ...new. They inveighed the Rice University graduate school graduate with their artillery of words: whore, loser, [bastardess] whom they had taken in, an...

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...rocosm of the Universe is also cellular in design; bubbles of space with thin shells made up of galaxies. The entire Totality of the Infinite Unive... ...ion or function. The first tools or machines were the first limbs, the first shells that developed outer limbs that moved repetitively. First usin... ...… Giving nothing back in return, except the dead husks, the unwanted outer shells they could not digest… because they were not designed, and not ... ...ons from conquering their homelands. But, with the invention of invention of artillery and firearms, these expanding waves of Nomadic migration and ... ... alive in the first place. They never lived; they merely existed as poisoned shells filled with undead things filthying their living bodies minds an... ...country. The arrogance of newfound industrialized power, better guns, bigger artillery. But above all… there had been too many strikes, too many... ...and Sculptures… we call these things artifacts… Boats, Planes, Guns, Bombs, Artillery, Warships, Armor, Weapons Galore… new technologies designed... ... his country.’ He loaded his army with more guns and armor and machines and artillery, and had them run their asses so ragged, they were happy to ... ...l in their planes to blast them apart, surround the dug-in German forces with artillery: and level them safely from a distance with more long-distan...

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... standing them back up. Before nightfall they would both comb the area for shells and spent bullets to be melted down and re-cast. She sighed. She'd... ...r woods filled with the echoes of 69 Elissa Malcohn Deviations: Covenant artillery, standing in the company of Basc's most notorious criminal of h... ...w of ink. My name is Gria. I have been out hunting Masari... The sounds of artillery came closer, bringing her back to the present. Repeating rifle...

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...h the coloured ones.” Steven grins. “Ah, don’t worry, just take the heavy artillery. If anything, it will boost his ego that you at least thought he... ...sier on me. I wouldn’t have to do what you’ve been doing; treading on egg shells.” “The problem is,” I reply. “He loves it too much.” I give an examp...

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...t juxtapositions; in Mala- gasy soldiers resting for a spell among the big shells they were hoisting into trucks for the front, in a couple of khaki- ... ...and rifle, stoop- ing as they ran, who had dropped into the craters of big shells, who had organised these chiefly at night and dug the steep ditches ... ...d the fragments and the red-rusted wire, with the silken shiver of passing shells in the air and the blue of the lower sky con- tinually breaking out ... ...the hill. Soon after and probably in connection with this signal, Austrian shells began to come over. They do not use shrapnel because the rocky soil ... ... in which the essential factor is the drilled and trained infantryman. The artillery is developing as a means of breaking the infantry; cavalry for ch... ...; the fortified place upon a pass or main road, as a check to the advance. Artillery improves, then fortification improves. The defensive holds its ow... ...he enthusiastic infantry of the re- public, improving transport and mobile artillery, using road- making as an aggressive method. In spite of the succ... ...s. This we will call Grade A. T o this the offensive replies with improved artillery, and par- ticularly with high explosive shell instead of shrapnel... ...lock, if it can, the dug-outs and destroy or silence the counter offensive artillery. If it can do that, it can go on; otherwise Bloch wins. If fighti...

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...ubble eyes looked at the men. As they climbed the hill on the farther side artillery began to boom. Here the youth forgot many things as he felt a sud... ...jeer. With the passionate song of the bul- lets and the banshee shrieks of shells were mingled loud cat- calls and bits of facetious advice concerning... ...he sky. From a position in the rear of the grove a bat-tery was throw- ing shells over it. The flash of the guns startled the youth at first. He thoug... ... out of a distant wood. He again saw the tilted flag speeding forward. The shells, which had ceased to trouble the regiment for a time, came swirling ... ...s he, leading, went across a little field, he found himself in a region of shells. They hurtled over his head with long wild screams. As he listened h... ...ed. There was the rip-ping sound of musketry and the breaking crash of the artillery. His mind flew in all directions. He conceived the two armies to ... ...ound that it seemed could sway the earth. With the courageous words of the artillery and the spiteful sentences of the musketry mingled red cheers. An... ...I ‘m ‘fraid of. I ‘m ‘fraid I ‘ll fall down —an’ then yeh know—them damned artillery wagons—they like as not ‘ll run over me. That ‘s what I ‘m ‘fraid... ...nd dismay. Presently, men were running hither and thither in all ways. The artillery booming, forward, rearward, and on the flanks made jumble of idea...

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...he museum. This museum is no empty boast; it contains mineral speci- mens, shells—such great shells as were found on the beaches of our previous game—... ... the middle and wear them as a Mexican does his blanket. Then a battery of artillery turned up in the High Street and there was talk of fortifications...

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...dun Municipals, see no resistance possible. Has he not sixty thousand, and artillery without end? Retardation, Patrio- tism is good; but so likewise i... ...escort of a hundred huzzars. He had placed some squadrons behind them, the artillery in front; he said to them: “As for you, for I will neither call y... ...enfans), you see before 52 The French Revolution - V olume Three you this artillery, behind you this cavalry. You have dishonoured yourselves by crim... ...those Villages and homesteads we know of old were stirred by the rumble of artillery-wagons, by the clatter of hoofs, and many footed tramp of men: al... ...tself. The Lille trenches opened, on the 29th of the month; with balls and shells, and redhot balls; as if not trenches but Vesuvius and the Pit had o... ...x. 63-71).) The Austrian Archduchess (Queen’s Sister) will herself see red artillery fired; in their over-haste to satisfy an Arch- duchess ‘two morta... ...ut ineffectual. Provisions cut off; nothing entering our city but shot and shells! The Arsenal has roared aloft; the very Hospital will be battered do... ...r so of them gathered both Theatre de la Republique; but,’ says he, ‘a few shells dislodged them. It was all finished at six. ’ The Ship is over the b...

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...aid the little dark man. “You carn tell what they might do.” “Where’s your shells?” said the first speaker. “There ain’t no time. Do it in a rush, tha... ...ns, and then he answered perplexingly and brokenly. He was a driver in the artillery, and had only come into action about seven. At that time firing w... ...ruins. Then the Thing shut off the Heat-Ray, and turning its back upon the artilleryman, began to waddle away towards the smoulder- ing pine woods tha... ... up out of the pit. The second monster followed the first, and at that the artilleryman began to crawl very cautiously across the hot heather ash towa... ...k his head against the trunk of a pine tree. At last, after nightfall, the artilleryman made a rush for it and got over the railway embankment. Since ... ...m which we had watched the Martians, and went very quietly downstairs. The artilleryman agreed with me that the house was no place to stay in. He prop... ...y attention was riveted upon the nearer incident. Simultaneously two other shells burst in the air near the body as the hood twisted round in time to ... ...es, and one, by a happy chance, had been destroyed. In the other cases the shells had missed, and the batteries had been at once annihilated by the He... ...f they had been on parade, and fired at about a thousand yards’ range. The shells flashed all round him, and he was seen to ad- vance a few paces, sta...

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... business when a private American adventurer was landed with his pieces of artillery from an American 21 Robert Louis Stevenson war-ship, and became ... ...nsuls. Captain Brandeis. The new actor was Brandeis, a Bavarian captain of artillery, of a romantic and adventurous charac- ter. He had served with cr... ...another province, decide it perhaps otherwise. I gather, on the whole, our artillery captain was not great in law. T wo articles refer to a matter I m... ... of Apia toiled in the front upon a trench, digging with knives and cocoa- shells; and a continuous stream of children brought them water. The young s... ...te to History EBER steamed into the bay. Her commander, Wallis, threw some shells into Letongo, one of which killed five men about their cooking-pot. ... ...d the Manono man how he came to be going away. “The man-of-war is throwing shells,” said he. “When they stopped firing out of the house, we stopped fi... ...f the house, we stopped firing also; so it was as well to scatter when the shells began. We could have killed all the white men. I wish they had been ... ...illage of Letongo beyond was equally silent; part of it was wrecked by the shells of the EBER, and still smoked; the inhabitants had fled. On the beac...

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...n, more or less. It was like listening to a child babbling of its hoard of shells. It was like watching a fool playing with buttons. But I was expecte... ...mpanies each. Ten regiments cavalry, twelve companies each. Five regiments artillery, twelve companies each. Now there is a notion in the air to reorg... ...ur troops each; third battalion, skeleton; fourth on paper. Five regiments artillery at four battalions, four compa- nies each; third battalion, skele... ...overlooking all the city stands the United States garrison of infantry and artillery. The State of Utah can do nearly anything it pleases until that m...

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...you to contend with in front of Richmond? Can you get near enough to throw shells into the city? A. LINCOLN, President. TELEGRAM TO GENERAL J. C. FREM... ...bels are in line of battle in front of our lines. They have nine pieces of artillery, and in position, and cavalry. I shelled the woods in which they... ...d the woods in which they were, and they in return threw a large number of shells into the lines and tents from which I moved last night to take up a ... ...L HALLECK, Corinth, Mississippi: Would be very glad of 25,000 infantry; no artillery or cavalry; but please do not send a man if it endangers any plac... ...ge Patten says he was a classmate of yours and was in the same regiment of artillery. Have you a place you would like to put him in? And if so what is... ... be attempted, and I have accordingly issued orders to the engi- neers and artillery to prepare for it. There is much hazard in it, as there always is... ... a decisive blow. I particularly advised you to use your cavalry and light artillery upon his communications, and attempt to cut off his supplies and ... ... D.C. June 9, 1863 MAJOR-GENERAL HOOKER: I am told there are 50 incendiary shells here at the arsenal made to fit the 100 pounder Parrott gun now with... ...under Parrott gun now with you. If this be true would you like to have the shells sent to you? A. LINCOLN 302 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol S...

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...ock looks so tremendous, that to ascend it, even without the compliment of shells or shot, seems a dreadful task—what would it be when all those myste... ...tually looking, surrounded by plantations of cannon-balls and beds of bomb-shells, sufficient, one would think, to blow 29 Thackeray away the whole p... ...g acts of folly, murdering Socrates, or pelting Aristides with holy oyster-shells—all for Virtue’s sake; and a “History of Dulness in all Ages of the ... ... fight- ing, without in the least heeding the war-paint. Some of the huge artillery with which the place was defended still lies in the bastions; and... ...means by a little harmless trade in beads and crosses, and mother-of-pearl shells, on which figures of saints are engraved; and which they purchase fr... ...baubles,—bushels of rosaries and scented beads, and carved mother-of-pearl shells, and rude stone salt-cellars and figures. Now that inns are establis... ...gus?As I write this, and think, back comes Rhodes, with its old towers and artillery, and that wonderful atmosphere, and that astonishing blue sea whi...