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  • There Allenby and Dawnay told me the British were marched and fought nearly to a standstill, in the ledged and precipitous hills, shell-torn and bullet-spattered, amid which they wrestled with the

    Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

  • All the army had to show for its effort was a causeway of dead bodies, some hard-won Federal ordnance, and a bit of shell-torn woods.15 4. MALVERN HILL: A TRAGEDY OF STAFF

    LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001

  • All the army had to show for its effort was a causeway of dead bodies, some hard-won Federal ordnance, and a bit of shell-torn woods.15 4. MALVERN HILL: A TRAGEDY OF STAFF

    LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001

  • Meanwhile, the Soviet tanks had disappeared into a shell-torn wood.

    Panzer Aces Kurowski, Franz 1992

  • Again, at dead of night, he rolls out across the shell-torn fields, burrowing deep into the sodden ground….

    ONE SHOT-ONE KILL CHARLES W. SASSER CRAIG ROBERTS 1990

  • Again, at dead of night, he rolls out across the shell-torn fields, burrowing deep into the sodden ground….

    ONE SHOT-ONE KILL CHARLES W. SASSER CRAIG ROBERTS 1990

  • All the army had to show for its effort was a causeway of dead bodies, some hard-won Federal ordnance, and a bit of shell-torn woods.15

    Lee’s Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1971

  • All the army had to show for its effort was a causeway of dead bodies, some hard-won Federal ordnance, and a bit of shell-torn woods.15

    Lee’s Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1971

  • All the army had to show for its effort was a causeway of dead bodies, some hard-won Federal ordnance, and a bit of shell-torn woods.15

    Lee’s Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1971

  • Before they came to grips with the shell-torn survivors of the foremost enemy units, they would often deploy into line or the ordre mixte and plunge into the fray with the bayonet.

    THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

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