Word: mortaring
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...gates, released millions of gallons of water into the river valley. The flood reached seven feet in some gorges, forced U.S. engineers to cut two pontoon bridges (to save them from being swept away), then quickly subsided. Meanwhile, the attacking battalion was having a rough time. Murderous artillery and mortar fire forced it back...
...famous Civil War battle of 1863, Federal ships on the Mississippi during 42 consecutive days fired 11,500 mortar shells into Vicksburg...
...infantry reinforced by engineers went to the designated spot, made a loud splashing in the water. Then they retired, noisily chopped some wood, returned to the river and pushed out from shore several log rafts and a boat loaded with dummies in old Turkish uniforms. An artillery and mortar barrage provided "cover" for the phantom force...
Surprised, the Communists began a fighting withdrawal, threw one battalion into the path of the Foreign Legion to buy time. But French officers took their German Legionnaires on into the Communist machine-gun and mortar fire, finally into a bayonet charge. When the Legionnaires reached the Communist line, they found that the Reds had pulled back, taking their wounded with them. Four times through the heat of the day the cursing, green-clad Legionnaires, red with sweat and black with paddy mud, made their attacks. Each time the Reds withdrew. To the south, French soldiers crossed neck-deep streams under...
...March 1855, set about photographing the war by starting with the jumble of ships at the British harbor base of Cossack Bay, Balaklava. venton's slow, bulky camera could catch no British armies in action, but it could catch such mood shots as "A Quiet Day in the Mortar Battery," the shallow "Valley of Death," littered with cannonballs after the Charge of the Light Brigade, and the threatening magnificence of the proud syth Regiment drawn up on parade with its tents in the background. In the leisurely pace of the war, commanders had plenty of time...