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Updated: June 28, 2025
In actual battle they were hardly strong enough and could not carry all that burden of fighting-kit steel helmet, rifle, hand-grenades, shovels, empty sand-bags with which other troops went into action.
On reaching the deck he found the cutter was prepared for action. Two of the guns were trained aft, boarding-pikes were placed along the bulwarks. An arm-chest stood open, containing pistols, hand-grenades, swords, and cutlasses, while a number of muskets lay on the companion hatch.
A force attacked a New Zealand regiment in great strength and for the moment secured the advantage, but the regiment got to grips with the enemy with hand-grenades and bayonets, and so completely repulsed them that they fled in hopeless disorder leaving many dead and wounded behind them.
The sky darkened after this, for Georgia voted a million of dollars to raise troops, and it became evident that the other Southern States would follow in the same direction. By the 18th of November we considered ourselves reasonably secure against a coup-de-main. Our guns were up, and loaded with canister, and we had a fair supply of hand-grenades ready for use.
We happened to have on board the frigate a large quantity of fish-hooks; these we planted, not only on the greasy boards, but in every part where the intruders were likely to place their hands or feet. The breach itself was mined, and loaded with shells and hand-grenades! masked guns, charged up to the muzzle with musket-balls, enfiladed the spot in every direction.
Instead of hand-grenades the Germans began to throw bread to us great, flat, army loaves, Ranjoor Singh not showing himself, but counting aloud as each loaf came over, we catching with great anxiety lest they fall into the water and be polluted.
For this they had crawled across the road in the night to find themselves unable to move either way and directly under the flashes of the Browns' rifles. Feller's and Stransky's shouts rose together in a peculiar unity of direction and full of the fellowship they had found in their first exchange of glances. "You engineers, make ready!" "Hand-grenades to the men under the tree!
Determined to win or fall, they launched an attack almost without ammunition, with bayonets and hand-grenades and they gained a victory over an enemy vastly superior in numbers.
It would be to betray the innocent! Continue, my son." "Well, then," Pierre went on, his voice deepening and his face growing more tense, "then we were sent to Verdun. That was the hottest place of all. It was at the top of the big German drive. The whole sea rushed and fell on us big guns, little guns, poison-gas, hand-grenades, liquid fire, bayonets, knives, and trench-clubs.
They thought that they knew the full gamut of horrors; but nothing that they had yet gone through was any criterion for what they now had to endure. All understood the nature of a hand-grenade, which bursts like a Nihilist's bomb. It was as easy, they knew, to toss hand-grenades over the sand-bags into human flesh as apples into a basket.
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