As new recruits, cycle 3 students revive the daily routine of an artillerist, ensure maintenance of the powder magazine and learn more about the important contribution of black powder to the development of modern societies. |
Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock, Gen. John Gibbon, engineer Gouverneur Warren, and artillerist Henry J. Hunt emerged from the battle as legitimate heroes. |
Cut from the anonymous, ordinary people of history, like an artillerist stripped to the waist, ramming gunpowder down a superheated cannon, to Napoleon sitting on a little folding chair on a hill overlooking the battlefield. |
Napoleon, an artillerist par excellence, considered campaigns and battles to be something more than duels of artillery. |
He discovered that the little boy resembled him, and was overjoyed to see him in the dress of an artillerist playing with a sabre. |
He threw out his anchor, which ricochetted, as an artillerist would say. |