When a cat does meet his match in the control department, he is most likely to unlimber the " big guns " of feline domination; meowing and purreowing is the " assault rifle " of interspecies control.
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General Adolph von Steinwehr, was just as surprised as the Canadian units they found, but the Americans attacked first from multiple directions through Stottsville, causing a rout in the Canadian column, its attached artillery unable to unlimber and fire with the packed mass of fleeing soldiers.
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The idea of advancing cannons on the marines then doesn't work because the time it take to limber up a cannon-move it a few hundred feet, then unlimber and fire again is so slow that they'd all be dead long before they could get off another shot.
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In this phase of the battle, Forrest commanded his field artillery to unlimber, unprotected, only yards from the Federal line, and to shred their troops with canister ( Which in effect turns an artillery piece into a giant shotgun . ) The massive damage caused Brigadier-General Sturgis to re-order his line in a tighter semicircle around Brice's Crossroads, facing east.
