They were running here and there, and many seemed to vanish suddenly--he knew that they were blown away by the shells.

To the right of the great French battery some lighter field guns were advancing.

One drawn by eight horses had not yet unlimbered, and he saw a shell strike squarely upon it.

In the following explosion pieces of steel whizzed by him and when the smoke cleared away the gun, the gunners and the horses were all gone.

The monster shell had blown everything to pieces.