Word: salvo
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Dates: during 1915-1915
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...sentry. The Mayor thought that by turning to the right we might ge out to Mazerulles and see some artillery in action. So we passed swiftly out of Champenoux to the eastward, only to be brought up after we had gone half a mile or so by a salvo from a battery of soixante-quinzes installed in a carefully concealed position close to the roadside. We were not 50 yards distant from the guns when they went off, and feeling that further advance might lead us into difficulties we stopped...