Sentence examples for and artillery in a from inspiring English sources

It is as if time had stood still since 1982 — the year that Hafez al-Assad, the country's secular President, crushed a rebellion led by the Muslim Brotherhood in the city of Hama, deploying tanks and artillery in a three-week siege that reduced the Old City, the rebels' stronghold, to rubble.

Every troop movement was precisely timed, and there would be full use of air support and artillery, in a design that would unfold over a wide terrain and, no matter what the opposition might be, would almost certainly produce the tangible result of evacuating several thousand hostile civilians, thereby depriving the V.C. of hundreds of "structures," even if the "infrastructure" was not present.

3 RAR's defence of FSB Andersen was the first occasion in the history of their operations in Vietnam that an Australian fire support base had been subjected to a ground assault while during all three attacks the cavalry and artillery in support had played a key role in the defence.

Remaining in the military for the interwar period, he held a number of postings in ordnance and artillery in Australia and England.

Residents reported hearing gunfire and artillery in both places.

The rebels said their positions were targeted by ground attack and artillery in Unity and Upper Nile states.

The rebels planned to deploy tanks and artillery in the coup.

The ARSK armour and artillery in the AOR outnumbered that of the HV.

Opposition activists in Damascus said the army was using surface-to-surface missiles and artillery in the area.

In both style and substance, Denman represents heavy artillery in a pretty literal sense, and yesterday his part-owner, Harry Findlay, was sounding optimistic that he might find an immediate range.

US Texas received a message that enemy artillery in a wood 20 miles inland were hampering the landings.