In reply our horse-artillery opened on the advancing Confederates, but the men behind the barricades lay still till Pickett's troops were within short range. ❋ Unknown (2010)
By this time our horse-artillery, which for two days had been stuck in the mud, was all up, and every gun was posted in this line. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In his assault he was permitted to come close up to our works, and when within short range such afire was opened on him from our horse-artillery and repeating carbines that he recoiled in confusion after the first onset; still, he seemed determined to get the place, and after reorganizing, again attacked; but the lesson of the first repulse was not without effect, and his feeble effort proved wholly fruitless. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The horse-artillery at Vincennes are ready, on the instant, to gallop into the capital. ❋ Edmund Flagg (N/A)
General moved out rapidly with the cavalry and horse-artillery, and ordered the infantry to follow as quickly as possible. ❋ G. J. Younghusband (N/A)
Meanwhile the 4th Light Horse and a brigade of horse-artillery were heavily engaged till dusk in holding off reinforcements from Nablus who were attempting to cross by the Jisr ed Damieh ford. ❋ Antony Bluett (N/A)
The reason was soon apparent: a battery of horse-artillery was seen galloping madly over the stretch of level plain a mile or so in our rear, in the direction of the Turkish big guns. ❋ Antony Bluett (N/A)
Another horse-artillery gun was abandoned, and the whole of its artillerymen slain, and some of the children of the officers became prisoners. ❋ Various (N/A)
Lieutenant-Colonel Mackerell; two horse-artillery guns, under ❋ Various (N/A)
If there was any peace and goodwill about we failed to notice it, for it was blowing and raining hard, and we had to get half a battery of horse-artillery on board that deplorable ship. ❋ Antony Bluett (N/A)
We have lost six entire regiments of infantry, three companies of sappers, a troop of European horse-artillery, half the mountain-train battery, nearly a whole regiment of regular cavalry, and four squadrons of irregular horse, besides a well-stocked magazine, which _alone_, taking into consideration the cost of transport up to Cabul, may be estimated at nearly a million sterling. ❋ Various (N/A)
Getting in touch with the enemy, the horse-artillery came into action, but their fire, good and accurate as it might be, was not sufficient to stay the determined advance of large bodies of bloodthirsty and fanatical ghazis. ❋ G. J. Younghusband (N/A)
Then they sent a message to the battery of horse-artillery operating with them to ask for gunners to give them instruction in the art of gunnery, as they were not doing enough damage themselves! ❋ Antony Bluett (N/A)
Hussars, Guides 'cavalry, 17th Foot, forty-five Sikhs, together with a battery of horse-artillery, were sent on from Jellalabad, as an advance force to clear the road to Kabul. ❋ G. J. Younghusband (N/A)
Hard by these perspiring cavalrymen a battery of horse-artillery struggled to master the intricacies of driving with fourteen-horse teams. ❋ Antony Bluett (N/A)
In the end, we are told, his force consisted of little more than one field battery, one troop of horse-artillery, and an infantry regiment, all of which were British, with a few hundred trusted Pathans. ❋ R. E. Cholmeley (N/A)
Lee's forty thousand men were shielded by an elbow of the Potomac; his batteries of horse-artillery under Stuart were murdering the forces of Hooker, when that general was relieved by the support of Mansfield; then ❋ Various (N/A)
Then came the light armoured-car batteries and in the centre the horse-artillery. ❋ Antony Bluett (N/A)
For modern cavalry and horse-artillery purposes they are unsurpassed. ❋ Theo. F. Rodenbough (N/A)
