Sentence examples for formidable artillery from inspiring English sources

For starters, he suggested that the North could withdraw some of its formidable artillery dug in near the border within easy range of Seoul, the South's capital.

After using his formidable artillery train to take Norham Castle he marched south, where the invasion was stopped decisively on 9 September 1513 at the Battle of Flodden Field.

This injection of capital allowed Bull to develop what was then the most formidable battlefield artillery piece in the world -the GC-45 gun.

The carnage continued into the evening, until finally Abercrombie ordered a full retreat and a return to not just their landing site but to fortified area south of Lake George, making a follow-up siege of the fort with his still formidable army and artillery impossible.

Military quarters admit that the resistance of the Soviet infantry and artillery is formidable.

Hizbullah has a formidable armoury of missiles, artillery, anti-aircraft guns and anti-tank weapons, and is capable of inflicting a high casualty rate, one that could test the strength of Israeli public support for the war.

"First it was artillery.

It is possible that North Korean artillery is less formidable than most think.

In defense of his decision, Beauregard's troops were simply exhausted, there was less than an hour of daylight left, and Grant's artillery advantage was formidable.

It would not take much to throw such an elaborate organism into chaos.The forces arrayed against North Korea are even more formidable: 639,000 South Korean troops, 5,300 artillery pieces and 460 combat aircraft, buttressed by over 28,000 American troops and a nuclear guarantee from the world's only superpower.

He feels most historians are obsessed with the disasters, overlooking the fact that the British Army transformed itself from a small entity with 19th-century weapons and tactics into a formidable fighting machine "combining infantry, armour, artillery and machineguns assisted by airpower and wireless communications … to which the enemy [by 1918] had no answer".