Battle of Corunna in Spain, between the French and English, and death of Sir John Moore, who fell mortally wounded by a cannon shot, at the moment of victory achieved by the troops under his command.
Admiral Sprague was drowned, his boat being sunk by a cannon shot.
JAMES, duke of Berwick, killed by a cannon shot at the siege of Phillipsburgh, in Germany, while standing between his two sons.
In the dead silence of the night it penetrated like a cannon shot, and the echo seemed to Prescott to come back from the far forest and the hills beyond the James.
She was awakened by a low, distant sound, one that the preceding day had made familiar--the report of a cannon shot.
A puff of smoke appeared suddenly, followed by a spurt of flame, and the sound of a cannon shot thundered in their ears.
The rattle of musketry fell upon their ears, and then a sound almost like a cannon shot.
And when they did fire, it was like a cannon shot; and after that, our men seemed to have no spirit left in them.
It was not like a volley of musketry; it was like a cannon shot.
Tom Ross said something, but it was lost in the whistling of a cannon shot overhead.
A cannon shot of Marshal Rantzau's squadron soon compelled the vessel in which I was bound for Virginia[19] immediately to strike her flag; and the result of the Marshal's attack upon Ostind you are in full possession of already.
A valet de chambre of King James, who preceded his master, returning from Ireland to Paris, related as a fact that the Prince of Orange was killed by a cannon shot, which he had received on the day of the battle.
The report, as circulated, was, that the Prince of Orange had been killed by a cannon shot in fording the river Boyne.
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