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  • called columbiads, a form of heavy gun combining the qualities of gun, howitzer, and mortar. He was promoted lieutenant-colonel, 9 Feb., 1815, and was...
    317 bytes (517 words) - 03:44, 2 March 2018
  • the South Foreland in 1872 and 1873, it was proved that a short 512-inch howitzer, firing 3 pounds of powder, yielded a louder report than a long 18-pounder...
    760 bytes (6,460 words) - 07:36, 2 October 2018
  • garita San Cosme. I got an officer of the voltigeurs, with a ​mountain howitzer and men to work it, to go with me. The road being in possession of the...
    579 bytes (5,198 words) - 08:45, 9 August 2020
  • supply-wagon train arrived at a certain fort and delivered a light mountain howitzer field-gun, sent out by the ordnance department for trial. All were anxious...
    340 bytes (1,017 words) - 09:49, 28 March 2022
  • and shouts. Captain Weightman advanced with the howitzers at full speed, upon the redoubts at the ​west corner of the bench, supported by the cavalry under...
    457 bytes (4,948 words) - 05:36, 8 October 2018
  • twenty-four pounder, and one 8-inch howitzer, On the ridge south of El Molino Del Rey, and opposite the south-west angle of the castle; number 3, which...
    459 bytes (10,456 words) - 05:41, 8 October 2018
  • McDowell's company of the First North Carolina, with a Richmond howitzer gun under Lieutenant West, in command of Major Lane, of the First North Carolina, was...
    302 bytes (11,440 words) - 18:30, 29 November 2018
  • directly west of it. Sept. 21st at 7 A. M., the first and volunteer divisions were ordered to advance towards the city. Our mortar and howitzer batteries...
    497 bytes (5,227 words) - 07:17, 21 June 2017
  • ultimo I ordered Company K, Third California Volunteers, Captain Hoyt, two howitzers, under the command of Lieutenant Honeyman, and twelve men of the Second...
    10 KB (1,694 words) - 13:08, 3 May 2023
  • muzzle-brakes. But the 155-mm. howitzers could not be brought to bear at such close range and the Germans rolled on unscathed. Just west of Hemroulle about half...
    102 KB (17,423 words) - 11:58, 27 November 2022
  • ordered one hundred infantry to the summit, and had a 12 — pounder and a howitzer planted there. By six o'clock Worth made nearly or quite seven miles. He...
    145 bytes (8,432 words) - 00:22, 15 November 2023
  • help of a battery from the 73d Armored Field Artillery Battalion whose howitzers were close enough to give direct fire at both American roadblocks. About...
    48 KB (8,266 words) - 11:58, 27 November 2022
  • Ponce de León, assigning to him at least five hundred men and a 2-pound howitzer. At about three o'clock on Christmas afternoon Doniphan, with less than...
    145 bytes (6,067 words) - 00:23, 15 November 2023
  • eight-inch howitzer under Drum were placed behind bushes on the road from Tacubaya to Mexico, about 1000 yards from Chapultepec, and a similar howitzer with...
    145 bytes (8,931 words) - 00:43, 15 November 2023
  • contained eleven 42-pounders, six 32’s, four 13-inch mortars, and one howitzer, with an immense quantity of stores and ammunition. Its garrison consisted...
    486 bytes (1,602 words) - 13:55, 10 April 2017
  • English, French, and Prussians have nothing to learn; but their cannon, howitzers, and mortars are mere pocket-pistols compared with the formidable engines...
    11 KB (1,854 words) - 14:45, 30 September 2022
  • but its members were captured or killed. The howitzers of the 456th Parachute Field Artillery Battalion west of the river went to work and for a time disorganized...
    75 KB (13,161 words) - 11:58, 27 November 2022
  • Mitchell with his six associates of my company, made a rush to bring off the howitzer and place it in a better position. Upon reaching the guns, they determined...
    342 bytes (4,034 words) - 13:19, 28 October 2015
  • the third rifle company was located in reserve at Brandenburg with one howitzer battery to give support. Some distance back from the river the 2d Battalion...
    73 KB (12,426 words) - 11:58, 27 November 2022
  • established a battery, consisting of two twenty-four-pounder howitzers and a ten inch mortar, at a point from which they could play upon Black Fort. A natural...
    452 bytes (2,682 words) - 06:17, 9 August 2020
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