Complex sentence: Handbook of Artillery, (1920), p.55 The gun and its limber were normally together towed by a single horse or mule, but were manhandled forward if contact with the enemy was expected.
Split into simpler sentences: Handbook of Artillery, (1920), p.55 The gun and its limber were normally together towed by a single horse or mule. But were manhandled forward if contact with the enemy was expected.