His regular force comprised eight thousand infantry, two thousand cavalry, twenty field-guns, and two hundred forty artillerymen.

There were no Europeans whatever, excepting the regimental officers and sixty-one artillerymen.

" Eye-witnesses at Urfa describe how the Armenian community there was massacred in 1915the third time in twenty years, and this time to extinctionand it points the irony of the situation that the Turkish guns were served by German artillerymen.

The motive power is furnished by the powerful motor truck at the right, which also carries most of the artillerymen forming the gun crew.

"The artillerymen work silently, the perspiration streaming down their cheeks, and continue sending on their messengers of death.

And this is magnified many times when the fire is increased to the intensity which the artillerymen call 'drumming' the positions of the enemy.

Lent passed with its Holy Week, its array of processions and pompous displays, without other novelty than a mysterious mutiny among the artillerymen, the cause of which was never disclosed.

The uprising that I had arranged with the artillerymen was a failure from lack of plan and timeliness, but this time it won't be so.

Up to the outbreak of the insurrection in 1896, the only genuinely Spanish troops in the islands were a few hundred artillerymen, the rest being natives, with Spanish officers.

That left at Fredericksburg, as we have said, under General Early, numbered six thousand men; and the twenty-one thousand which Jackson had taken with him, to strike at the enemy's right, made up the full body of troops under Lee, that is to say, a little over forty thousand, artillerymen included.

The dragoons sang German marching songs as they rode by, but the artillerymen were dour and silent lot for the most part.

Few in number, worn out by the excessive fatigues of a three months' campaign, and enervated by continuous work in the deadliest season of the year, these gallant European artillerymen earned during those last days of the siege, by their zeal and devotion, the heartfelt thanks of the whole army.

We were almost always under fire from the enemy; but with the utmost cheerfulness, and even, I may say, good-humour, the whole of the infantry did all in their power to lighten the work of the overtasked artillerymen: comrades we were, all striving for the accomplishment of one purposethat of bringing swift and sure destruction on the rebels who had for so long a period successfully resisted our arms.

The bastion to the right was hard at work cannonading the heights of Courbevoie; great columns of smoke, succeeded by terrific explosions, testified to the zeal of the Communist artillerymen.

Therefore, it is most urgent that you give orders to the artillerymen of Courbevoie and Mont Valérien, to moderate their zeal, if you do not desire that Parisneutral Parisshould make dangerous comparisons between the Assembly which flings us its shells, and the Commune which launches its decrees, and come to the conclusion that decrees are less dangerous missiles than cannon-balls.

The turbulent population, complaining in indignant tones of circulation being stopped, insulted the sentinels placed at the entrances of the streets, and threatened the artillerymen who were watching them.

The immediate effect of their disaffection was to abandon the artillerymen to the power of the crowd that was increasing every moment, rendering it utterly impossible for them either to retreat or to advance.

We still hoped for the continuance of peace, but who could say how long the peace would last? Phalsbourg was ordered to put itself into a state of defence, a large workshop was set up at the arsenal for the repairing of arms, and engineers and artillerymen came over from Metz to make earthworks in the fortifications.

They were soon among the gunsthe very guns that had annoyed them from the firstand Charles, and two or three others known to him, were hunting some Russian artillerymen round these guns for a minute or so.

In the course of the afternoon, General Henningsen arrived, bringing a fine brass howitzer, and a small reinforcement of infantryas those armed with rifled muskets and bayonets were calledand artillerymen;

In the summer of 1857 sixty-one English artillerymen and about 3,000 sepoys were attached to the garrison at that place, where about 800 foreigners resided.

At the time the Belgian General Staff believed that the Germans were using the same giant howitzers which demolished the forts at Liege, but in this they were mistaken, for, as it transpired later, the Antwerp fortifications owed their destruction to Austrian guns served by Austrian artillerymen.

The guns were served by Belgian artillerymen commanded by British gunners and each gun- truck carried, in addition, a detachment of infantry in the event of the enemy getting to close quarters.

I looked all about the premises and could see only some artillerymen.

The General carried besides a number of Flemish and German passengers for Delagoa Bay, in plain clothes but of "military appearance," some of whom were believed to be trained artillerymen.