When Compans exited the woods on the far bank of the Kolocha, he was hit by massed Russian cannon fire ; both Compans and Dessaix were wounded, but the French continued their assault.

When a defensive line was too extensive to be entirely bypassed, massive offensive might could be massed against one part of the line allowing a breakthrough, after which the rest of the line could be bypassed.

When performing with massed bands of the British Army, the Royal Artillery Band is placed right of the line, and before those of the Household Cavalry, and the Guards Division.

When the Indians became aware that the camp was getting ready to move, a large number of them massed around the camp, causing the leaders to call off the idea.

When Perón returned to Argentina on June 20, 1973, his plane had to be redirected to a military airport because of fighting between armed Peronist factions that had massed to greet his arrival at Buenos Aires's main airport.

When Essex rebelled in 1601, Howard took command of the soldiers massed to defend London and defeated him in the field.

When Custer's summer offensive begins, tens of thousands of U. S. soldiers are lost attacking Confederate lines, and the new barrels, deployed singly in an infantry support role rather than massed as an armored fist, break down in the hilly terrain to little effect.

When the Indians became aware that the British were getting ready to move, a large number of them massed around the camp, causing the leaders to call off the march until morning.

When the Southern States exercised their `` right to secede '', they formed what they officially styled `` The Confederate States of America ''.

When the North enthusiastically rallied behind the national flag after the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, Lincoln concentrated on the military and political dimensions of the war effort.

When the Confederate attempt to defend Petersburg failed, the Confederate army retreated but was pursued and defeated, which resulted in Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.

When the country could not reconcile the issue of slavery and the federal union, the southern Presbyterians split from the original PCUSA, forming the Presbyterian Church in the Confederate States of America in 1861, which became the Presbyterian Church in the United States after the American Civil War.

When an Apache war chief wipes out a company and kidnaps several children, Dundee throws together a makeshift army, including unwilling Confederate veterans, black Federal soldiers, and traditional Western types, and takes off after the Indians.

When Sheridan reported suffering attacks by irregular Confederate cavalry under John S. Mosby, Grant recommended rounding up their families for imprisonment as hostages at Ft. McHenry.

When Grant took Presidential office in 1869, Reconstruction of the former Confederate States had not been completed.

When the American Civil War broke out, he served in the 22nd Virginia Infantry of the Confederate States of America.

When the U. S. Representatives and Senators from the former Confederate states reached Washington, they set as a priority the creation of a statute prohibiting any future President or Congress from directing, by military order or federal legislation, the imposition of federal troops in any U. S. state.

" When the Confederate Flag flew over the court house in Floyd, it was saluted by nearly everyone, but not so with our neighbors across the river.

When Confederate Lieutenant General Jubal A.

When the first charter of the town was secured by an attorney representing the railroad ( Middleton P. Barrow ), the name was changed to Cornelia in honor of his second wife ( and daughter of Confederate Major General Henry R. Jackson ), and so it has remained.

When Osband learned that Confederate Colonel A. J.

When the American Civil War broke out in 1861, the majority of Newtown's young men joined Confederate forces.

When news of the Confederate warship's exploits reached prospectors in California sympathetic to the American Civil War Confederates, they named many mining claims after the ship, and the name came to be applied to the entire range.

When Robert E. Lee retreated from Gettysburg, over 5000 wounded Confederate soldiers were left behind which were then treated by Dix's nurses, like Cornelia Hancock who wrote about what she saw —" There are no words in the English language to express the suffering I witnessed today ...."

When Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan entered upon his Peninsula Campaign in spring 1862, the important duty of keeping the Confederate forces of Stonewall Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley from reinforcing the defenses of Richmond fell to the two divisions commanded by Banks.

When news reached him of the Confederate victory at Bull Run in July 1861 he was very pleased, although 15 months later he wrote that " the American War ... has manifestly ceased to have any attainable object as far as the Northerns are concerned, except to get rid of some more thousand troublesome Irish and Germans.

When the Civil War broke out in 1861 he moved to Richmond, Virginia, the Confederate capital, to edit the powerful Richmond Enquirer.

For example Johnny Reb meant a Confederate soldier, and a popular song was " When Johnny Comes Marching Home ".

When the Civil War started in 1861, Akerman joined the Confederate Army and achieved the rank of Colonel.

When two major assaults ( May 19 and May 22, 1863 ) against the Confederate fortifications were repulsed with heavy casualties, Grant decided to besiege the city beginning on May 25.

When the Civil War broke out, Confederate Secretary of the Navy Stephen R. Mallory was an early enthusiast for the advantages of armor.

When they lost it, the French artillery moved in, and that was the end for Garibaldi that time, on 30 April 1849.

When fighting troops of industrialized nations, Gatling guns could be engaged by artillery they could not reach and their crews could be targeted by snipers they could not see.

When the Winter War broke out, Nevanlinna was invited to join the Finnish Army's Ballistics Office to assist in improving artillery firing tables.

When the main attack came at the opposite end of the line on July 21, the brigade played a relatively minor role, although it endured artillery fire for nine hours.

When the Russians attacked the Chechen capital of Grozny during the first weeks of January 1995, about 25, 000 civilians died under week-long air raids and artillery fire in the sealed-off city.

When the militant prelates of York and Durham together with the Earl of Northumberland took their forces into the marches to relieve the fortress, the Scots swiftly retreated — a chronicle written a year later said that the Scots ' had fled wretchedly and ignominiously '— but the effects and the manner of the defeat and the loss of their expensive artillery was a major reversal for James both in terms of foreign policy and internal authority.

When zero hour came, there was a brief and unsettling silence as artillery shifted their aim to a new line of targets and the time of the infantry to advance had come.

When the Boers bombarded Ladysmith with Creusot ninety-four pounder siege guns, Chamberlain asked for the dispatch of comparable artillery to the war, but was exasperated by the Secretary of State for War, Lord Lansdowne's argument that such weapons required platforms that needed a year of preparation, even though the Boers operated their " Long Tom " without elaborate mountings.

When he first attempted to cross he was confronted by a small group of men from the Harrison County Legion firing artillery from the shore and armed men aboard the river boat Lady Pike.

When Morgan returned fire with his own artillery the home guard quickly retreated back toward Corydon leaving Mauckport undefended.

When the British troops withdrew, the Americans began construction of artillery batteries to protect the earthworks, which were then christened Line Jackson.

When they were discovered, the Spaniards fired from El Fraile's artillery.

When the United States became involved in World War I, this was the first artillery unit to be sent to France, and it fired the first US artillery shell against Germany.

When they had requested French help, a young artillery officer by the name of Napoleon Bonaparte was to be sent to Constantinople in 1795 to help organize Ottoman artillery.

When moderate delegates then offered an alternative in April 1784 which scaled the projected army down to 900 men in 1 artillery and 3 infantry battalions, Congress rejected it as well, in part because New York feared that men retained from Massachusetts might take sides in a land dispute between the two states.

When self-propelled artillery, the armoured personnel carrier, the wheeled cargo vehicle, and supporting aviation — all with adequate communications — were combined to constitute the modern armored division, commanders regained the capability of maneuver.

When Mawhood learned that Mercer was in his rear and moving to join Sullivan, Mawhood detached part of the 55th Regiment to join the 40th Regiment in the town and then moved the rest of the 55th, the 17th, fifty cavalry and two artillery pieces to attack Mercer.

When thousands of regiments are grouped up into large fighting forces, they are issued far larger assets such as theatre-or even planetary-scale artillery, thousands of super-heavy tanks regiments, and even hundred strong groups of Cohorts of Praetorian-class landships that dwarf the Leviathan command vehicles from thousands of Munitorium armory, fortress, and staging worlds.

When the American Revolutionary War broke out in 1775, he befriended General George Washington, and quickly rose to become the chief artillery officer of the Continental Army.

When the Continental Congress first created a Continental Army under command of George Washington in 1775 he was named to Chief Engineer ( artillery ).

When he landed, Hartmann learned that the Soviet forces were within artillery range of the airfield, so JG 52 destroyed Karaya One, 24 other Bf 109s, and large quantities of ammunition.

When the artillery was in place, officers could direct the fire wherever it was needed to accelerate the breakthrough.