Sentence examples for artilleryman from inspiring English sources

AS THE barrage of populist attacks becomes deafening, José Manuel Barroso, the president of the European Commission, sounds like an artilleryman who can tell the sound of every shell.

The girls would soon be needed as nurses.In this section When the battle's lost and won Heroes and villains Bearers of bad news Voice of reason Cast of millions A wintry thriller ReprintsGeneral Giap, the Vietminh commander, has been compared to his own model, that other artilleryman, Napoleon.

Harry Truman had been an artilleryman in World War I and remembered well the lunar landscape of the Western Front.

According to legend, at the Battle of Monmouth (June 28 , 1778, Mary Hays, wife of artilleryman William Hays, carried water to cool both the cannon and the soldiers in her husband's battery hence the nickname "Molly Pitcher".

During his career as an artilleryman, he held various appointments in Canada and Germany, including command of the 5e Régiment d'Artillerie Légère du Canada in Quebec.

Fortunately, he ran into a fellow-Minnesotan at the airport, an artilleryman with whom he had gone off to Asia thirteen months earlier; the artilleryman, also homeward bound, unhesitatingly lent Eriksson the ten dollars.

Buddhist monks pray as the coffin of Cambodia's late King Norodom Sihanouk is taken from the royal palace to the crematorium Source: REUTERS Cambodian artillerymen fire 101 guns before the royal palace.

Military engineers, artillerymen, and other technical officers were trained at the École Polytechnique, an engineering school that was founded in 1794.

Throughout most of its history Saint-Cyr prepared officers for the infantry and cavalry and for staff positions within those services, while the École Polytechnique in Paris trained engineers, artillerymen, and other technical officers.

Three bodies of troops were formed, all trained and armed in the European manner and paid out of the royal treasury: the ghulāms (slaves), the tofangchīs (musketeers), and the topchīs (artillerymen).

Then some unmounted officers, artillerymen, and other specialists began to carry carbines.