"battery" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Settling it into place, she engaged the batteries.
- In the middle of March, Albatross engaged the Confederate batteries at Grand Gulf, Mississippi, and suffered one man killed and nine wounded.
- Vixen engaged the Mexican batteries on shore but, when it became apparent that McLane would never succeed in getting across the bar, she and her tows retired.
- During the first assault, Iosco engaged the batteries at Mound Fort, and hit the Confederate flag flying over the fortification, knocking it down.
- On December 7 he took his two heaviest ships, the ironclad Carondelet and the river monitor Neosho downstream to engage the batteries.
- The three vessels shifted their ballast to the port side to enable their combined 63 starboard guns to elevate sufficiently to engage the batteries.
- As small ships engaged the batteries on shore, two frigates entered the bay and attacked the disarmed frigates, causing both to surrender in an hour-long engagement.
- The operation began on 12 October, when the Kaiser-class battleships engaged the batteries on the Sworbe peninsula.
- The next day USS Evans engaged the batteries and received four near misses, wounding four men aboard the ship.
- Two larger vessels, the corvette Madison and the brig Oneida would engage the nearest British batteries.
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