"Covering fire" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... fire of the Mississippi rifles. It looked like certain death, but four entire regiments came forward at once. They entered the boats, which promptly pulled for the right bank, and the great batteries at once opened a covering fire. ...
— The Star of Gettysburg - A Story of Southern High Tide • Joseph A. Altsheler
... fact were making entrenchments—the Russians, who under cover of the forest that extended right down to the beach on either side had been stealthily making their preparations, attacked them on all sides, and but for the covering fire of the ironclads, fortunately still at anchor there, would undoubtedly have driven them ...
— Sketches From My Life - By The Late Admiral Hobart Pasha • Hobart Pasha |
