Agra Canal headworks, at Okhla barrage, in Delhi, 1871.

General Edmund Allenby used infantry, to successfully attack the strong Ottoman front line, under cover of an artillery barrage. This creeping barrage lifted and moved forward at a rate of between 50 yards ( 46 m ), 75 yards ( 69 m ) and 100 yards ( 91 m ) per minute, while 4. 5-inch howitzers fired on points beyond the barrage augmented by the guns of two destroyers firing from the Mediterranean Sea.

But it was not until a few hours onwards, while safe navigation was becoming increasingly difficult, that the steamboat was hit with a barrage of sticks-little arrows, everywhere-aimed at the steamboat from the wilderness on shore.

That fall, Notre Dame upset heavily favored Army, 35-13, at West Point thanks to a barrage of Dorais-to-Rockne long downfield passes.

One contemporary French account described the barrage at Agincourt against French knights wearing plate armour as a " terrifying hail of arrow shot ".

The war had gone on for sixteen years minimum ; it ended abruptly after the Skrulls shot a barrage of missiles at Majesdane, who retaliated.

* In February 1943, a Lancaster bomber hit the cable of a barrage balloon and crashed without survivors on the return from a raid on the U-boat pens at Lorient.

There were at this point over 100, 000 federal government employees, most of whom expected to be replaced when a new administration took over ; the President-elect described the situation as " a barrage of fear and greed.

After making the standard request for surrender at 0800, which was refused, Klenau ordered a barrage from his mortars and howitzers.

The Mascletà, an explosive barrage of coordinated firecracker and fireworks displays, takes place in each neighbourhood at 2: 00 pm every day of the festival ; the main event is the municipal Mascletà in the Plaça de l ' Ajuntament where the pyrotechnicians compete for the honor of providing the final Mascletà of the fiestas ( on March 19 ).

A barrage was built on the river at Dowleswaram by Sir Arthur Cotton in 1852.

" Astaire introduces the film's tap motif when he blasts a tap barrage at the somnolent members of a London Club.

February 27: Hamas, the Popular Resistance Committees and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad fired a rocket barrage at the Israeli city of Ashkelon.

In addition, only half of the available artillery was committed at any one point in time with the intensity of the barrage expressly varied as to confuse the Germans and preserve some level of secrecy.

This deadly barrage forced the French out, and at about the same time, the third column attacked the castle of Sokolnitz.

The battle began at dawn, approximately 06: 00 on 20 November, with a carefully prepared and predicted but unregistered barrage by 1, 003 guns on German defences, followed by smoke and a creeping barrage at ahead to cover the first advances.

After knocking him down with a series of heavy overhand rights at the end of the eighth round, Margarito was unable to avoid punches during a heavy barrage from Mosley early on in the ninth, forcing the referee to step in as Margarito slumped to the canvas a second time.

These troops would not see action at Wagram, although the batteries would open an artillery barrage when Austrians from Klenau's VI Corps came within range, on the second day of the battle.

Nordmann's men were faced with massive artillery barrage coming from French batteries on Lobau island and, with increasing numbers of enemy battalions coming up, Nordmann had no option but to turn north, leaving behind detachments at Sachsengang castle and Gross-Enzersdorf.

At a meeting where Peter Lilley argued that Thatcher could not survive, Hamilton subjected him to a barrage of " sarcasm and heckling ". On 21 November 1990, Hamilton and like minded colleagues, met Thatcher at Downing Street.

Following a two-hour artillery barrage meant to soften up the Union defenses, the three divisions stepped off across open fields almost a mile from Cemetery Ridge.

At 3: 00 pm, the French guns opened the barrage and drove the British frigate, HMS Guadeloupe across the York River, where she was scuttled to prevent capture.

Theirs were the first heavy AA guns ashore after D-Day and they operated in the anti-aircraft and ground support roles across north-west Europe, including the defence of Antwerp against a V-1 flying bomb barrage.

Watson proposed building a barrage stretching across the mouth of Cardiff Bay from Cardiff Docks to Penarth which would impound freshwater from the rivers Ely and Taff to create a large freshwater lake-thus providing permanent high-water.

One of the major selling points of the proposed development was the opening up of a new pedestrian and cycle route across the barrage.

On 21 March, a five-hour artillery and gas shell barrage across a front signified the beginning of the Battle of St. Quentin ( Operation Michael ) and the Spring Offensive in the Somme.

In 2004, he performed the Holy Virgin Cult show across the United States, scaring audiences with a barrage of apparent flung feces, urine, tortured screaming, public sex and religious flagellation.

The promised pedestrian and cyclist short cut to Cardiff across the barrage finally opened to the public on Friday 27 June 2008, after numerous postponements.

Preston City Council have published controversial plans to build a barrage across the River Ribble, in their ' Riverworks ' proposals.

The main components of the project, as built, are, a ) the Ithai barrage, across the Manipur river of height and length with three spillway bays, b ) water conductor system for trans-basin diversion comprising an open channel of length, a cut and cover section of length ( bed width, followed by a Head Race Tunnel of diameter ( horseshoe type ) and long to carry a discharge of () for power generation and for irrigation ), c ) a surge shaft, d ) penstocks and e ) a surface powerhouse and a tailrace channel on the right bank of the narrow Leimatak River with three units of 35 MW capacity each generating an annual energy of 448 GW · h ( 1. 613 PJ ).

In desperation to solve the salinity problem, area residents first proposed constructing a tidal barrage across the mouth of Suisun Bay, but the Marshall Plan, put forwards in 1919 by Robert Marshall of the United States Geological Survey, had a different solution.

In Cardiff, the natural course of the river was changed during the 19th century ; from Cardiff Castle it now follows an artificial riverbed west of where it previously flowed, now following a path through Bute Park and next to the Cardiff Arms Park and the former National Stadium, now the Millennium Stadium, and into Cardiff Bay, which has now become an artificial lake due to the construction of a barrage across the mouth of this river and the River Ely It then flows out into the Severn estuary.

The few soldiers that survived that gauntlet and made it across no man's land were unable to pass through the thickets of German wire, which had been undamaged by the British barrage.

English troops charged the camp across a ditch, only to be met with a hail of arrows and quarrels, and a fierce barrage of gun, cannon and small arms fire.

Subsequently he also carried five messages across the open under heavy artillery barrage to company headquarters.

He repelled frequent enemy attacks and also barrage from our attacks, which came right across his post.

Supported by artillery, a machine gun barrage and by tanks, the 51st ( Highland ) Division stormed across the heavily-defended Y Ravine and captured the village of Beaumont Hamel.

This method is also useful against barrage jamming, in that it forces the jammer to spread its jamming power across multiple frequencies in the jammed system's frequency range, reducing its power in the actual frequency used by the equipment at any one time.

The pedestrian and cyclist short cut to Cardiff across the barrage finally opened to the public on Friday 27 June 2008.

Just a small distance before it joins cauvery a small barrage across the river was built by Kalingarayan in 1283 AD.

The Wasps launched their barrage of flame across the Leopold Canal, allowing the 7th Brigade troops to scramble up over the steep banks and launch their assault boats.

Created in estuaries with large tidal reaches, on a barrage across the river.

On the night of 17 – 18 September 1940, a gale broke loose a number of British barrage balloons and carried them across the North Sea.

Subernarekha Barrage project ( West Bengal ) envisages construction of a barrage across the Subarnarekha downstream of Chandil dam and Galudih barrage near Bhosraghat to irrigate 1, 14, 198 ha annually in the Medinipur district of West Bengal through a left bank canal and its distribution system covering a culturable command area of 96, 860 ha.