cannonade

The place would not last five minutes against a cannonade.

What served to increase this, was the cannonade at the town.

"Next morning the cannonade began again, but from another side.

If there is a cannonade, an explosion, you will be the first to experience it.

He could hear the distant cannonade, having no idea where the fighting was under way.

A cannonade by the French in 1747 left the church devastated.

They lost approximately 150 men, mostly to the cannonade at the start of the battle.

A cannonade lasting several hours was exchanged with little effect.

"What is more they would be vulnerable for the whole march to the cannonade of our ships."

A fire consumed most of the town that had not been damaged in the cannonade.

It became a cannonade of sound that human ears could not endure.

Beneath me the very ground was bucking with the cannonade.

The cannonade itself is however a seldom occurring event in military history.

They had heard the sound of the cannonade from the south and knew that they would be next.

Watch the cannonade with a glass of the house tin to and a good cigar.

The cannonades had reduced it to a ridge of rubble.

Big black round shot lay here, left from the cannonade that had made the first breach.

The front lawn echoed with the cannonade, while inside, all was deserted.

The cannonade of the automatic was silencing in its power.

At 1:07, we hear the thunder and crash of a Confederate cannonade.

But her house was struck by a ball from your cannonades.'

The door before us began to bang, again and again, a cannonade of sound.

Moments later, the sound of the cannonade rolled over the encampment.

Then his attention turned away from the bridge to the mighty cannonade which seemed to be growing in volume.

After the tremendous cannonade of the afternoon the night seemed very quiet and peaceful.

In reply I had five of the feluccas cannonade them.

A few days later, Khorshid gave orders to cannonade and bombard the city.

I felt the surge again, but this time from the center of everything that was sexual in me, rushing up to cannonade within my brain.Pow-pow-pow.

After the siege had continued many days, Khorshid gave orders to cannonade and bombard the town.

"I need, at the very least, some squadrons of Typhoon fighters to bomb and cannonade the armed bands.

Holmes was ordered to cannonade retreating Federals near Malvern Hill.

They have a Battery especially, and strong post, to cannonade the Bridge at Pirna, should the Saxons think of trying there.

At 8 a.m., the British began to cannonade the American forces from the mouth of the Big Sandy Creek.

Marshall watched them explode off their moorings and cannonade out into the street, as if jerked away on the end of enormous hawsers, disintegrating as they flew.

At daylight Wills landed the men, including 900 sailors, to the east of the city, and Leake brought seven ships into harbour in order to cannonade the fortifications.

On June 30, 1862, while the battle of Glendale was fought to the north, Holmes was ordered to cannonade retreating Federals near Malvern Hill.

After loading supplies for the fleet at Fort Monroe and Norfolk, Virginia, she returned in mid-January 1865 to cannonade Fort Fisher until its surrender on the 15th.

The castle was successfully held during the time Edinburgh was occupied by the rebels, the last act of the defenders being to cannonade Prince Charles's followers at the review preceding their march into England.

Seeing the Nawab's forces retiring, Major Kilpatrick, who had been left in charge of the British force while Clive was resting in the hunting lodge, recognized the opportunity to cannonade the retiring enemy if St. Frais' position could be captured.

The 3rd Regiment did not stay long at Fort Ticonderoga; the fort's commander, Arthur St. Clair, was forced to abandon the fort because British commander John Burgoyne's forces had taken control of nearby Mount Defiance, making it possible to easily cannonade Fort Ticonderoga.

Thir, the commander of the Albanians, then repaired to the citadel of Cairo, gained admittance through an embrasure, and, having obtained possession of it, began to cannonade the pasha over the roofs of the intervening houses, and then descended with guns to the Ezbekia and laid close siege to the palace.