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Updated: May 23, 2025
Just before the charging infantry reaches the trench, the cataract of artillery fire, which has been pouring into it, is suddenly shifted back a few hundred yards, where it hangs like a curtain shutting off escape. The success of such tactics demands, of course, finished work from the artillery-men and perfect co-ordination between artillery and infantry.
The Sikhs were big, massive fellows, fully six feet tall, with towering red turbans that accentuated their height fully a foot. They were regular artillery-men from Fort Canning, and had seen service all over India.
Those who listened to them most favorably would only promise to defend themselves if attacked, while some of the artillery-men drew the charges from their guns and extinguished their matches.
I could see him straighten up, glance at it, then go on with his mowing again. There was a certain elegance, a fine spaciousness about these artillery-men and their work which made one more content with war again.
He fixed it there against the wall in such a manner that the artillery-men should not see it. That done, they awaited the next discharge of grape-shot. It was not long in coming. The cannon vomited forth its package of buck-shot with a roar. But there was no rebound. The effect which they had foreseen had been attained. The barricade was saved.
"But the Spaniards were not raw troops; and terror however great, was not able to overcome their sense of discipline and their duty to each other as comrades. It was in vain that the Mexicans rushed upon them 'as a conquered thing'; they reached their station, served their cannon steadily although they had to renew their artillery-men and maintained their ground.
Our European force consisted of thirty artillery-men in charge of a battery of three guns. At the fort of Chunar, sixteen miles distant, there was a number of European soldier pensioners, of whom perhaps sixty or seventy might be effective.
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