One example of this magnetic power must here suffice.

He had ordered a battery to be made so near to Fort Mulgrave that Salicetti described it as within a pistol-shot of the English guns.

Could it be worked, its effect would be decisive.

But who could work it?
The first day saw all its gunners killed or wounded, and even the reckless Jacobins flinched from facing the iron hail.

"Call it _the battery of the fearless_," ordered the young captain.