limbered-up

Updated: May 10, 2025

Not often is it given to a man to die so choice a death as that of this nameless soldier. But the detachment was already so placed that nothing could save it from heavy loss. The wagons had all passed but nine, and the leading battery of artillery was at the very edge of the donga. Nothing is so helpless as a limbered-up battery.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Great Boer War