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This meant it had less armour than a battleship, particularly horizontal armour against plunging fire - shells coming down from on high at a long range.

Faced with the threat of so-called plunging fire, soldiers have adjusted routines to carry out most tasks at night, apart from sporadic daytime patrols and manning a trio of guard towers where guns angle up to point high into the rocks above.

Scott rapidly forming his men under the plunging fire of these, shouted, "Forward!" and began to scale the ascent.

In spite of all the threats and expostulations of the governor, the garrison, galled by this plunging fire, at once capitulated.

As Rodes approached he was threatened by Buford’s cavalry, but, finding cover under woodland, he made advance by three brigades in line till he came to the point of view which gave him command of that end of the field in elevated position, and in plunging fire down Robinson’s line and in advance of the divisions sent by General Howard to occupy that point.