11 sentences with 'artillery'
Example sentences and phrases with the word artillery and other words derived from it.
• « The result of the artillery revolution was that fortresses and walls had to be redesigned and rebuilt literally from scratch, an enormously costly task that forced monarchs and nobles to seek new sources of income. »
• « Mass conscription allowed the French to develop permanent divisions and corps, each combining infantry, cavalry, artillery and support services. »
• « The weapons that had been developed in the decades before the war, from huge new battleships known as Dreadnoughts (single-calibre battleships) to high-explosive artillery shells and machine guns, had all been considered fortresses for the nations of Europe. »
• « Behind the trenches were artillery batteries, capable of launching huge shells for miles, and further back still the command posts of senior officers futilely devising new variations on a constant theme: desperate assaults on the enemy's impregnable position. »
• « No amount of skill or bravery mattered if an artillery shell hit the trench where a soldier was standing. Likewise, if ordered to "go over", all that could be hoped for was to survive long enough to be able to retreat. »
• « The Germans proved far more effective than the French or British in the use of tanks and artillery, and immediately began to push back the French and British forces. »
• « The French in particular failed to realise the potential of tank warfare: they treated tanks more as mobile artillery platforms than as weapons in their own right, and had no armoured divisions, only tanks interspersed with infantry divisions. »
• « In 1988, the Iraqis turned to another German company, Ferrostaal, to set up a 'multiple smelter' in the city of Taji, which the German government later discovered would produce cannons for artillery. These examples are just the tip of the iceberg, as 100 German firms were involved in the Taji project alone. »
• « From there, on 10 August 1806, he demanded the surrender of the British and when they refused to do so, he advanced to the Retiro area of Buenos Aires, which he seized without the artillery of Popham's fleet being able to prevent him from doing so. »