Sentence examples for severe artillery from inspiring English sources

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The defenders were able to hold on, but were subjected to severe artillery shelling during the day.

Yet, despite specific orders to the contrary, the Duke of Enghien, Condé's grandson, led a spirited attack on Steinstadt with the Army of Condé; they took the village with a bayonet charge and remained there under severe artillery and musket fire for the rest of the daylight hours.

He was employed as a clerk with the Bank of New South Wales, before he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force in July 1915, for service in World War I. Posted to an artillery unit on the Western Front, he was awarded the Military Medal for carrying out numerous repairs on a communications line while subject to severe artillery fire.

The 17th Army possessed three operable field cannon and a severe shortage of artillery shells.

However, in that position they were subjected to severe musket and artillery fire from the Confederates, and so they pushed forward to the Norfolk Railroad cut, forcing the Confederates back to their entrenchments.

During the afternoon of 21 June, the unit's position was subject to a severe bombardment of artillery shelling, resulting in an order for all men to evacuate the gun pits and seek cover.

The civilian deaths, it said, were "directly due to a rare and severe failure" in the artillery control system.

Despite the severe shortages of men, artillery, and powder, Charles continued the war and besieged Poltava in May 1709.

After seven hours of fighting, the Moroccan artillery suffered severe damage, and the French bombarded the city through the night, damaging the city's infrastructure and the Great Mosque of Salé.

The pursuit created severe problems for the French artillery.