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These sailors said that the Hindenburg was struck successively by four torpedoes while the destroyers dashed in alongside of its hull, tearing it to pieces until the mighty ship reeled and sank. An officer from one of the British destroyers gave the following graphic account of the battle: "The ships of the grand fleet went into action as if they were going into maneuvers.
Donegal had a sanctity for her, it seemed when she dwelled in it to set her in a way apart from and above earthly taints; and as her heart went out in a great longing towards it now, a sudden fierce loathing for the concealments, the shifts and maneuvers which she had practised, and still must practise, sprang up within her. A great weariness came upon her, too.
And now, in the American Revolution, it was not forts on the Hudson, nor maneuvers in the South, that were to decide the issue, but the presence of a few more French warships than the British could muster at a given spot and time.
Allen, that there are naval maneuvers going on to-day and that Admiral Perry is to surprise San Francisco with the fleet?" "But there are notices at all the street-corners saying that the Japanese governor of San Francisco begs the citizens " "Yes, that's where the joke comes in. Perry is going to attack the town as a Jap that's his scheme." "You haven't had enough sleep," cried Tom.
Robur, his mate Tom Turner, an engineer and two assistants, two steersman and a cook eight men all told formed the crew of the aeronef, and proved ample for all the maneuvers required in aerial navigation.
The maneuvers indicated by art are those intended to overwhelm one wing only, or the center and one wing at the same time. An enemy may also be dislodged by maneuvers for outflanking and turning his position. These attempts have a much greater probability of success if concealed from the enemy until the very moment of the assault.
Now swing your canoe well out into the lake, and head him off on the point, a quarter of a mile below. Hold the canoe quiet just outside the lily pads by grasping a few tough stems, and sit low. This time the big object catches Mooween's eye as he rounds the point; and you have only to sit still to see him go through the same maneuvers with greater mystification than before.
Instead of three alternative maneuvers open to the wily cavalryman, he'd ferreted out a fourth and his full force, hauling mountain guns on mule back with them, were trailing over a supposedly impossible mountain path which originally could not have been more then a deer track. Freddy Soligen, in back, was holding his head in his hands in surrender.
But after a four days' halt the mob, with no maneuvers or plans, again began running along the beaten track, neither to the right nor to the left but along the old the worst road, through Krasnoe and Orsha. Expecting the enemy from behind and not in front, the French separated in their flight and spread out over a distance of twenty-four hours.
From his barrack the Emperor could observe all the maneuvers at sea; and the telescope, of which I have spoken, was so good that Dover Castle, with its garrison, was, so to speak, under the very eyes of his Majesty.
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