Sentence examples for young artillery from inspiring English sources

Ms. Leija, the wife of a young artillery captain in Iraq, threw on a robe and took a deep breath.

He was made second lieutenant of artillery in the regiment of La Fère, a kind of training school for young artillery officers.

It was at the naval port on France's Mediterranean coast that a smart young artillery officer named Napoleon Bonaparte took the actions that launched him toward an imperial crown within 10 years and control of most of the continent within 20.

19, 1793), military engagement of the French Revolutionary Wars, in which the young artillery officer Napoleon Bonaparte won his first military reputation by forcing the withdrawal of the Anglo-Spanish fleet, which was occupying the city of Toulon and its forts.

Between 1783 and about 1789 he was an examiner of naval cadets; he served on the committee of weights and measures that established the metric system in 1791; from 1792 to 1793 he was minister for the navy and colonies and had occasion to welcome the young artillery officer who became Emperor Napoleon I; and in 1795 he participated in the founding of the National Institute of France.

As a young artillery officer in the Royal Canadian Army during World War II, he led his men ashore on D-Day at Juno Beach.

On a January day in Paris, in 1895, a ceremony was enacted in the courtyard of the École Militaire, on the Champ-de-Mars, that still shocks the mind and conscience to contemplate: Alfred Dreyfus, a young Jewish artillery officer and family man, convicted of treason days earlier in a rushed court-martial, was publicly degraded before a gawking crowd.

This time, Harris was inspired to write the book by Polanski's interest in the Dreyfus affair – a political scandal that divided France at the turn of the 20th century, dealing with a young French artillery officer who was wrongly convicted of treason.

He first witnessed great historical events in Paris in 1792, when he was still a young captain of artillery.

Mohamed, 21, shows me a video of his youngest brother firing heavy artillery with a group of fighters.

A young Alexander Hamilton once parked a battery of artillery on the hill, blasting a few shots at the British to discourage their pursuit of retreating colonials.