Identifier: battlesofninetee01forb (find matches)
Title: Battles of the nineteenth century
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Forbes, Archibald, 1838-1900 Atteridge, A. Hilliard (Andrew Hilliard)
Subjects: Battles Military history, Modern
Publisher: London New York : Cassell and Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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com-posed :—First of all a company of infantry withorders to take extended front about 150 pacesfrom its particular redoubt, and open fire onthe besieged. Following these sharpshooters,pioneers and engineers with spades, axes,ladders, and all other storming gear, includingbags of blasting powder, and after them, at100 paces distance, the storming calumn itself,followed at 150 paces by a reserve of equal aroused out of their sleep by such an infernaloutburst of cannon-thunder all along their frontas had never before, in lieu of the twittering andchirping of birds, greeted the advent of abeautiful day in spring. For six long mortalhours did the Prussians continue this terrificcannonade, of which the violence and intensitymay be inferred from the fact that during thistime no fewer than 11,500 shot and shell werehurled at and into the Danish redoubts. Thematerial damage done to these redoubts wasless, perhaps, than the demoralisation therebycaused to their defenders ; but the latter wa^
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THE GERMAN SOLDIERS MAKING SENTRIES OUT OF CI.AY (/. 227J Strength, together with a score of artillerists formanning the captured guns of the Danes. ■ The Danes, in the darkness of the night,knew nothing whatever of all these preparations,and it was only when the first streaks of dawnbegan to chequer the eastern sky that they were the result which the Prussians, perhaps, aimedat and valued most. Shortly before ten the awful cannonade sud-denly ceased, and was followed by a few minutespainful silence. During this brief interval thefield-preachers, who had given the Sacrament to 2^0 BATTLES OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. all the stormers the night before, now againaddressed to them a few fervid words of religiousencouragement, and then at the Ntiu, Kinder,in Gottcs Ndi/icn . ( Now, my children, awaywith you in Gods name I ) of their commanders,the six storming columns, raising a loud andsimultaneous cheer, dashed out of their trenchesand across to their respective redoubts to thestirring

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