Meanings of enfilading fire in English

Here they were immediately taken by highly organized and professional enfilading fire.

He forgot the chance-thecertainty-ofan enfilading fire from the two bastions.

A bend in its course gave some companies of the Seventieth Ohio an enfilading fire.

The men pulled their guns through mud axle deep, and poured in a destructive enfilading fire.

Sometimes it prevents enfilading fire by the enemy.

We are caught in an enfilading fire.

Nothing mortal can stand the enfilading fire.

Added to this, the nature of the enemy's works was such that it allowed an enfilading fire.

Caught in an enfilading fire, the Northlanders rallied under a massive clutch of Rock Trolls and counterattacked.

When night raiding commenced, it was speedily seen that straight trenches exposed whole companies of men to enfilading fire.

And yet I knew you had succeeded in your enterprise, for the enfilading fire ceased very shortly after you left.'

The three batteries planted by the Kentuckian, Rousseau, on the railway embankment suddenly opened a terrible enfilading fire upon the Southern advance.

Duncan, of the 21st Infantry, states that this relieved his battalion of an enfilading fire, and was a valuable service to them.

If possible, batteries should be established so as to take the enemy's line in flank, either by an oblique or enfilading fire.

The advanced left of the British recoiled, and, just at this juncture, the legion infantry delivered an enfilading fire, which threw them into irretrievable disorder.

"By advancing the angles boldly"-herethe Commandant pressed his finger-tipstogether by way of illustration-"weallow so much more play to enfilading fire.