The risks of grave injury were therefore greatly increased by exposure to this, which by soldiers is called enfilading, but at sea a raking fire; and to avoid such mischance was one of the principal concerns of a captain in a naval duel. ❋ Unknown (1877)
Seeing McCook so fiercely attacked, in order to aid him I advanced Hescock's battery, supported by six regiments, to a very good position in front of a belt of timber on my extreme left, where an enfilading fire could be opened on that portion of the enemy attacking the right of the First Corps, and also on his batteries across Chaplin River. ❋ Unknown (2010)
They moved out, and the ones that were in position near Cabu were in a beautiful enfilading position and practically wiped out that battalion. ❋ Patrick K. O’Donnell (2002)
For the Texan who is president, and is under enfilading fire on all sides, from adversaries and events, this may seem like Comanche Spring. ❋ Unknown (2008)
As to Machiavelli, the neocons, and ID, I think there is no enfilading position to be found there. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Thames; an enfilading view down the Lower Hope Reach. ❋ Unknown (2004)
In point of grazing, plunging, oblique, or enfilading, or point-blank firing, the English, French, and Prussians have nothing to learn; but their cannon, howitzers, and mortars are mere pocket-pistols compared with the formidable engines of the American artillery. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Three things must be done at once: Additional guns must be placed on the ridge to silence the Federal guns; second, ample infantry supports must be at hand; third, the Confederate left must be extended to drive off the infantry and guns enfilading Poague.21 ❋ DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN (2001)
Hill devised a plan to take a battery enfilading their advance. ❋ DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN (2001)
The enfilading batteries would fire at an angle through the growing breaches to keep the enemy from making repairs, and the howitzer, which fired high in the air so that its shells dropped steeply down, could bombard the repair parties behind the fortress ramparts. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1999)
Two seconds later the sound of the great gun bellowed all around Sharpe and Garrard, while the massive round shot struck the stalled limber just behind the enfilading battery. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1999)
"But you'll want some enfilading fire, " he warned Wellesley. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1999)
The gunners changed their aim, starting the two breaches in the higher inner wall, while the enfilading batteries, which had been gnawing at the embrasures to dismount the enemy's guns, began firing slantwise into the first breach to dissuade the defenders from building obstacles at the head of the ramp. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1999)
Stokes had already determined that his enfilading batteries should spare some shot for that gate in an attempt to unseat its cannon and unsettle its defenders. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1999)
The enfilading twelve-pounders fired shells into the breaches, while the howitzer lobbed more shells over the walls. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1999)
The closest guns were in the two enfilading batteries, and the gunners were using their twelve pounders to systematically bring down the parapets of the ramparts above Gawilghur's gate. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1999)
Sharpe trotted in a semicircle, going to the enemy's flank to suggest an enfilading attack, then he turned and spurred back towards Quatre Bras. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- (1990)
More towers along the wall for laying enfilading fire along its face. ❋ Cook, Glen (1989)
