flanking fire in a sentence
Examples
- The outer wall protected the inner one from siege engines, while the inner wall and the projecting towers provided flanking fire from crossbows.
- All the south wall warehouses, or godowns, had been erected outside the fort, which precluded any flanking fire from the two south bastions.
- In 1944 the fort was captured by Soviet forces and partially blown up ( all gun casemates for flanking fire and the caponiers ).
- Despite devastating flanking fire the allied column, made up of British and Hanoverian infantry, burst through the French lines to the point of victory.
- Stannard once again wheeled two regiments ( the 14th and 16th Vermont ) and repeated his tactic of flanking fire to repulse the assault.
- It zigzags up the slope of The Rock in four stages in a configuration that lets the defenders give flanking fire to each face.
- The long end of the'Z'ambush was located on one side of a trail or road enabling the ambushers to employ both enfilading and flanking fire.
- However, the tide of battle was about to turn, as flanking fire raked P�ckh's battalion, annihilating it as a fighting force and killing its commander.
- Wall towers, also known as mural towers, provide flanking fire ( from crossbows or other projectile weapons ) to a straight part of the curtain wall.
- The German artillery had been reorganised into divisional groups and batteries south of the Scarpe, maintained flanking fire on the French guns north of the river.