Sentence example with the word 'enfiladed'

enfiladed

Last update: October 16, 2015


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Disciplined troops as they were, they resisted the temptation to escape Ferrara's fire by breaking out to the front; but the whole Spanish line was enfiladed, and on the left of it the papal troops, who were by no means of the same quality, filled up the ditch in front of their breastworks and charged forward, followed by all the gendarmerie.   [Please select]

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The Americans fired a volley; Forest's battery, which enfiladed them, poured in a deadly fire.   [Please select]

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We were running short of ammunition and our position was enfiladed.   [Please select]

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But they rigidly adhered to one military maxim,--that fortifications must not continue in a straight line, because such straight trenches are liable to be enfiladed from either end.   [Please select]

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