Sentence examples for extensive artillery from inspiring English sources

Voices of caution within the National Security Council and the Pentagon warn that even a narrow no-fly zone could lead to mission creep, for instance if civilians were to flood into what would be perceived as a safe haven, only for the Assad regime to use its extensive artillery forces against the zone a catastrophe that might prompt calls for intervention to silence Assad's guns.

In August 1967, 7 RAR fought elements of the Viet Cong 3rd Battalion, 274th Regiment in the largely unheralded Battle of Suoi Chau Pha, where extensive artillery support again proved decisive.

In the early hours of 8 August, supported by the 7th Battalion of the Gloucesters and by extensive artillery and naval fire, the Wellington Battalion succeeded in capturing Chunuk Bair with relatively little resistance.

Led by Vice-Admiral Morard de Galles, General Lazare Hoche and leader of the United Irishmen Wolfe Tone, the invasion fleet included 17 ships of the line, 27 other warships and transports and carried extensive field artillery, cavalry and military stores to equip the Irish forces they hoped to raise.

It suffered further extensive damage from artillery from the advancing Red Army before the final occupation on 9 April 1945.

The Stewarts also adopted major innovations in continental warfare, such as longer pikes, the extensive use of artillery, and they built up a formidable navy.

The First World War, which took place between 1914 and 1918, saw the extensive use of artillery, particularly on the Western Front.

Since the front line had changed very little since the blockade was established, the German forces had built a dense defensive network of strong points, interconnected by trenches and protected by extensive obstacles and interlocking artillery and mortar fire.

Historians attribute the success of the Canadian Corps in capturing the ridge to a mixture of technical and tactical innovation, meticulous planning, powerful artillery support and extensive training, as well as the failure of the German Sixth Army to properly apply the new German defensive doctrine.

An Army veteran who had seen extensive combat in Europe with the artillery in World War II, he lived in a three-room apartment in the 3200 block of River Road with his mother, Freda.

To improve the transport of artillery and supplies, an extensive program of road building was started.