Gunners Sentence Examples

The British gunners had little time to prepare their positions.

Thirty-five hits had been counted on her by the " Scharnhorst's " gunners.

In the course of the summer he took the fortresses of Arad, Lippa and Vilagos; provided himself with guns and trained gunners; and one of his bands advanced to within five leagues of the capital.

Fortunately a dense fog hid the helpless masses on the Landgrafenberg from sight of the Prussian gunners.

It is customary to ascribe their successes to the power of the breech-loader, but there were actions in which it played no part, cavalry versus cavalry encounters, and isolated duels between batteries which gave the Prussian gunners a confidence they had not felt when first crossing the frontier.

The heavy rain, which had delayed the commencement of the action, had swollen the Bistritz so as to check their advance and thus postpone the decision, whilst the mist and driving rain hid the approaching troops from the Austrian gunners, whose shells burst almost harmlessly on the sodden ground.

Such a charge as prelude to the advance of a great infantry bayonet attack must have swept the exhausted Prussians down the hill like sheep, but the opportunity passed, and the gunners finding their position untenable, limbered up, not without severe losses, and retired to a second position in rear.

It had always been assumed during previous discussions on the question that warships adventuring the passage would try a rush, that they would endeavour to steam by the, batteries and drive the `defending gunners from their guns by concentrated fire.

Any Turkish battery that was chosen for target generally ceased firing before long; and the assailants were disposed to assume that the work was definitely put out of action, whereas all that had happened in reality was that the hostile gunners had been driven from their guns.

In a few minutes the batteries on the extreme Prussian left were completely overwhelmed, and suddenly dense lines of French skirmishers emerged from a fold in the ground upon their flank and front, and the gunners were compelled to resort to case-shot, so imminent was their danger.

In the next quarter of an hour the German gunners found the target again and again, and by half-past seven the British cruisers were obviously in distress.

The artillery is composed of European gunners, with native riders, while the cavalry are Europeans and natives.

He is said to have induced his brother to employ a Parsee to purchase artillery and small arms from the Bombay government, and to enrol some thirty sailors of different European nations as gunners, and is thus credited with having been "the first Indian who formed a corps of sepoys armed with firelocks and bayonets, and who had a train of artillery served by Europeans."

The artillery was very numerous, but skilled gunners were not available in any great strength and ammunition was scarce.

The Egyptian gunners had been little trained, and many of them had never once practised with rifled ordnance.

The attacking troops, both gunners and infantry, found their task unexpectedly lightened by the absence of a heavy return fire upon their batteries, trenches, and zones of concentration.

Patrick Viera and Martin Keown are both out for the Gunners, while Kiev have no major absentees.

Gunners game off The eagerly anticipated home meeting of the Charlton women's team with title rivals Arsenal next Thursday has been postponed.

Iraqi gunners have shot down unmanned Predator spy drones.

Which leaves the gunners in a bit of a pickle.

The increasing use of artillery also saw master gunners offering their services for hire.

The transit time for a convoy through the danger area was five hours which was plenty for the german gunners to range on ships.

Then came the antiaircraft gunners; then the Eastern Command contingent.

In the sky around the aircraft appeared little puffballs of smoke as the antiaircraft gunners on the warships brought their sights to bear.

Thurso and Wick boasted both riflemen and gunners; Halkirk had a rifle corps; Lybster had artillery.

By the third salvo, the German gunners had found their range.

The giant blast wave hurled two of the German gunners from their towers, and they lay senseless on the crown of the dam.

As he approached, a ringing shot issued from it deafening him and his suite, and in the smoke that suddenly surrounded the gun they could see the gunners who had seized it straining to roll it quickly back to its former position.

But the Austrian gunners were intent on the Prussian batteries farther back, which as the light improved had come into action.