In the morning we expected orders to advance, but as soon as we could use our glasses we found that we were far ahead of our neighbours, and were, in fact, enfiladed from the Turkish positions on our left. ❋ David Douglas Ogilvie (N/A)
Meanwhile the enemy, desperate but still confident, poured in a heavy fire from his line and from a battery which enfiladed the Brook road, and made Yellow Tavern an uncomfortably hot place. ❋ Unknown (2010)
On their left flank, Stuart pushed forward at least a dozen cannon, which enfiladed the Federal ranks. ❋ Jeffry D. Wert (2008)
The ditch was enfiladed by cannon mounted on triangular bastions. ❋ David Hackett Fischer (2008)
Nemours showed him at once what use to make of the army under his orders, and having enfiladed his National Guard battalions, and placed his artillery in echelons, he formed his cavalry into hollow squares on the right and left of his line, flinging out a cloud of howitzers to fall back upon the main column. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Thence he made his way, with the kitten skirmishing along beside him in the grass, to a staircase that led to a lump of projecting rock that enfiladed the huge green majesty of the Horseshoe Fall. ❋ Herbert George (2006)
He insisted that the column of attack would be enfiladed from Round Top. ❋ DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN (2001)
Were it driven back, Cobb's brigade in the sunken road would be enfiladed. ❋ DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN (2001)
He held his position until he was enfiladed, then led his men back. ❋ DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN (2001)
True, the British would have destroyed some of the larger guns, but the barrels could be mounted on new carriages and resited behind the vast bastions so that the attackers, if they even succeeded in climbing up to the breach, would be enfiladed by cannon fire. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1999)
An initial tide line of bodies marked where the sides had clashed, a dreadful smear of bloodied turf showed where two British cannon had enfiladed the enemy, then a further scatter of corpses betrayed the French retreat across the bridge which their engineers had not had time to destroy. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1995)
“I want half the men in those houses,” he pointed at the line of buildings which led from the south-western barricade, and enfiladed the southern approach to the city, “and the rest on the hill.” ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1988)
Riflemen, sent by Frederickson on to the western rampart, cleared the water bastion and, leaning in its cannon embrasures, enfiladed the ladders. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1987)
They would have to attack across open ground, through a scientifically designed maze of ditches and hidden walls, and all the time they would be enfiladed by dozens of masked batteries that could pour canister and grape into the killing-ground between the long, sleek arms of the star-like fortifications. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- (1981)
