At 18: 20, as Goliath and Zealous rapidly bore down on them, the leading French ships Guerrier and Conquérant opened fire.

Whatever its origin, the fire spread rapidly though the ship's rigging, unchecked by the fire pumps aboard which had been smashed by British shot.

They are regarded as pioneer species, rapidly colonising open ground especially in secondary successional sequences following a disturbance or fire.

Shade trees must not be planted near chimneys as flying fire sparks can ignite tree branches causing rapidly expanding fires.

The evolving nature of warfare required a firearm that could load and fire more rapidly, resulting in the flintlock musket ( and later the Baker rifle ), in which the pan was covered by furrowed steel.

Originally operated out of a small garage by an antique shop, using two 1940s-era fire engines, the department grew rapidly.

The oil field rapidly declined and a fire destroyed much of Elbing in 1933.

The tanker entered a gradual left turn which became a spiraling spin as the fire rapidly caused structural damage to the port wing.

Following the second fire, much of the commercial area was rapidly rebuilt, so the downtown today contains many historic buildings of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The fire started from unknown origin in the Hammock Building, a lodging house, and spread rapidly because of strong winds from the northwest.

The fire originated in the Parlin Parkin's grocery store, and spread rapidly.

There is some challenge to this, because in order to see the color of the metal it must be removed from the fire, and this exposes the metal to air, which can cause it to oxidize rapidly.

Colonel William Thornton ( of the 85th Regiment ) was to cross the Mississippi during the night with his 780-strong brigade, move rapidly upriver and storm the batteries commanded by Commodore Daniel Patterson on the flank of the main American entrenchments and then open an enfilading fire on Jackson's line with howitzers and rockets.

Unlined hose, because of its lack of durability, was rapidly replaced with rubber hose in municipal fire service use.

The tunnel acted like a giant chimney, sucking oxygen in from the bottom and rapidly sent the poisonous smoke, heat and the fire itself billowing upwards.

At 5 o ' clock all was ready, and Ney, preceded by a heavy artillery fire, rapidly carried the Sortlack Wood.

As a result, each infected host could instead simply " fire and forget " packets as rapidly as possible ( generally hundreds per second ).

Increasing wind speeds fed the fire to over by the following morning, and when wind speeds increased to around the fire grew rapidly, increasing fourfold over the next three hours.

The foam caused combustion to spread rapidly and the resulting fire led to 100 deaths, apparently because their quick escape was blocked by ineffective exit doors.

Star forts of the cannon era did not fare well against the effects of high explosive and the intricate arrangements of bastions, flanking batteries and the carefully constructed lines of fire for the defending cannon could be rapidly disrupted by explosive shells.

Team Sonic's Team Blast " Sonic Overdrive " destroys all enemies on the screen, and for a short time afterwards, grants Sonic an extra attack, allowing him rapidly fire himself at multiple enemies.

Newer aircraft like the C-130J carry the MAFFS II, which carry even more fire retardant, can disperse it more rapidly over a wider area, and is easier to recharge after a mission than its predecessor.

Expansion, modernization, and development of fire control to a proficiency and strength of force which will prevent as many fires as possible and suppress fires before they spread beyond permitted standards.

In 1537, Suleyman the Magnificent declared war upon Venice and his admiral Hayreddin Barbarossa spread fire and sword upon the Ionian Islands, and in October fell upon the island of Aegina.

Sustained British cannon fire spread the flames throughout the ship's stern, and prevented all efforts to extinguish it.

Doors are significant in preventing the spread of fire.

Special purpose fire doors are often employed in buildings to reduce the overall risk of fire, particularly by preventing the spread of fire and smoke.

The news spread like a fire in both East and West Pakistan, and the struggle for independence began in East Pakistan.

The headquarters garrison at the GPO, after days of shelling, was forced to abandon their headquarters when fire caused by the shells spread to the GPO.

File: Firewall_Electrical_Substation. jpg | Example of a firewall ( tested, not listed or certified by Southwest Research Institute ) used to inhibit the spread of a fire at an electrical substation.

A firewall is a fireproof barrier used to prevent the spread of fire between or through buildings, structures, electrical substation transformers, or within an aircraft or vehicle.

* A firewall is a wall separating transformers, structures, or buildings or a wall subdividing a building to prevent the spread of fire and having a fire resistance rating and independent structural stability.

* A high challenge fire wall is a wall used to separate transformers, structures, or buildings or a wall subdividing a building with high fire challenge occupancies, having enhanced fire resistance ratings and enhanced appurtenance protection to prevent the spread of fire, and having structural stability.

* Penetrations – Penetrations through fire walls, such as for pipes and cables, must be protected with a firestop assembly to prevent the spread of fire through the wall at this point.

But once mixed, for better results in a gun it was discovered that the final product should be in the form of individual, dense, grains ( originally the size of corn ) which allow the fire to spread quickly from grain to grain, much as straw or twigs catch fire more quickly than a pile of sawdust.

* 2012 – The Waldo Canyon fire is a forest fire that started in the northwest of Colorado Springs, Colorado and spread over 18, 500 acres.

The glow of the fire reached through the openings in the windows, giving light enough to examine Mike's wound.

It was partially cemented by ages and pressure, yet it crumpled before the onslaught of the powerful streams, the force of a thousand fire hoses, and with the gold it held washed down through the long sluices.

When her hand touched his, fire went through Jack and he felt weak, but he managed somehow to get her on her feet.

The colors were astonishing, clear and bright, and it was as if the body held a fire of its own, and the colors came through that transparent flesh and skin, vivid and alive and warm.

The body caressed through my hands like cool satin, and my hands, usually tanned and dark, were pale beside it, and I asked it where the fire colors could come from the coolness of that body.

* 1863 – American Civil War: The Siege of Vicksburg – ships led by Union Admiral David Dixon Porter move through heavy Confederate artillery fire on approach to Vicksburg, Mississippi.

* In one version of the story of the birth of Achilles, Thetis anoints the infant with ambrosia and passes the child through the fire to make him immortal but Peleus, appalled, stops her, leaving only his heel unimmortalised ( Argonautica 4. 869-879 ).

The other two are more interesting, both essentially being my father is MLK, with MLK being the reference found elsewhere in the Bible in prohibitions such as do not pass your children through the fire to MLK, in which case the following possibilities arise:

For example a target acquisition element can send a message with target details which is automatically routed through the tactical and technical fire control elements to deliver firing data to the gun's laying system and the gun automatically laid.

Vases filled with water used to start fires were known in the ancient world, and metaphorical significance was drawn ( by the early Church Fathers, for instance ) from the fact that the water remained cool even though the light passing through it would set materials on fire.

In March 1933, one month after the Reichstag fire, the then president, Paul von Hindenburg, a retired war hero, gave Hitler ultimate power through Enabling Act of 1933, he remained at the post of Federal Government Chancellor ( though he called himself the Führer ).

In 1731, the manuscript was badly damaged by a fire that swept through a building housing a collection of Medieval manuscripts assembled by Sir Robert Bruce Cotton.

: ... our men fought in and through the fire ... until many on both sides were burned to death.

During the First World War, on the Western front, the two sides had been locked in a trench war, where kill zones by overlapping fire of machine guns and barbed wire prevented either side from breaking through.

In September 1923 a major fire swept through the neighborhoods north of the University campus, stopping just short of downtown.

Somerset County Council is responsible for running the largest and most expensive local services such as education, social services, the library, roads, public transport, trading standards, waste disposal and strategic planning, although fire, police and ambulance services are provided jointly with other authorities through the Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service, Avon and Somerset Constabulary and the South Western Ambulance Service.

In the kiva of both Ancient Pueblo Peoples | ancient and present-day Pueblo people s, the sipapu is a small round hole in the floor that represents the portal through which the ancestors Hopi mythology # Four Worlds | first emerged ( the larger hole is a fire pit, here in a ruin from the Mesa Verde National Park )

Generally there is a method of selecting the order in which the barrels of an SST shotgun fire ; commonly this is done through manipulation of the safety, pushing to one side to select top barrel first and the other side to select bottom barrel first.

For example, when a laboratory apparatus was developed that could reliably fire one electron at a time through the double slit, the emergence of an interference pattern suggested that each electron was interfering with itself, and therefore in some sense the electron had to be going through both slits at once — an idea that contradicts our everyday experience of discrete objects.

For example, while burning an area of fairly thick forest and thus turning it into a more open, grassy environment might reduce the viability of a large browser ( an animal that eats leaves and shoots rather than grasses ), the reverse could also be true: removing the browsing animals ( by eating them, or by any other means ) within a few years produces a very thick undergrowth which, when a fire eventually starts through natural causes ( as fires tend to do every few hundred years ), burns with greater than usual ferocity.

This process is called theosis, or deification, and is a spiritual pilgrimage in which each person strives to both become more holy through the imitation of Christ and cultivation of the inner life through unceasing prayer ( most famously, the Jesus Prayer ) or hesychasm, until united at death with the fire of God's love.

They tunnelled through the walls of the neighbouring buildings in order to evacuate the Post Office without coming under fire and took up a new position in 16 Moore Street.