Pontoons

Examples

• As soon as enough troops were over to guard the ford, pontoons were laid and the artillery and the rest of the troops crossed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The work of ferrying over Sherman's command from the north side of the Tennessee was at once commenced, using the pontoons for the purpose. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• No quarter is to be given to the English, on account of their cruelty to our braves on board the infamous pontoons. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• There were now one hundred and sixteen pontoons in the North Chickamauga River, their presence there being unknown to the enemy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• On this day I wrote to Halleck ordering all the pontoons in Washington to be sent to City Point. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The tube, when in position, was lowered down upon its bearings on the pier by opening valves in the pontoons, which thus sunk sufficiently to ease them of their load. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• It rained all the 20th and 21St. The river rose so rapidly that it was difficult to keep the pontoons in place. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The spectators seemed spellbound, for no shouts or exclamations were heard, as all watched anxiously the silent course of the heavily freighted pontoons. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• At three o'clock on the morning of the 27th, Hazen moved into the stream with his sixty pontoons and eighteen hundred brave and well-equipped men. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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