Officers in riot gear used a battering ram to break in to the ground floor flat.
In 1813, when he was before San Sebastian, the ammunition ran short; a battering train, long demanded, reached him not only some time after it was needed, but even then with only one day's provision of shot and shell.
But her fragile 75ft trimaran, B&Q, is taking a battering in the rough seas of the Southern Ocean.
The diet of 1497 passed most of its time in constructing, and then battering to pieces with axes and hammers, a huge wooden image representing the ministers of the crown, who were corrupt enough, but immovable, since they regularly appeared at the diet with thousands of retainers armed to the teeth, and openly derided the reforming endeavours of the lower gentry, who perceived that something was seriously wrong, yet were powerless to remedy it.
Although the babies did well in the hospital, a troubling percentage of them seemed not to prosper at home and were even victims of battering and abuse.
