He was not aware that cannon were to figure in the contest; and with his large force he could easily overcome the small number behind the breastwork.
When they had ascended about half the distance to the summit, one of the cannon pealed, and three men were seen to fall from their horses.
The wagons, over a dozen in number, were safe from the hands of the enemy; for they had enough to do in the vicinity of Logan's Cross Roads, as the roar of the cannon in the battle was heard in the distance.
After the battle of Colline, where the King of Prussia was sadly defeated, his Majesty stood in a musefull melancholy, and looked through his glass at a battery of cannon which was still playing and was within reach of him.
On the main decks the men fought up to their middles in water, the heavy cannon broke away from the breechings, or ropes used to control them, and even iron bolts tore out from the ships' sides under the severe recoil of the guns.
Although the attack upon their rear was limited to a few desultory broadsides, the two fleets were at last nearly withincannon shot, whereas the day before they had been eight or ten miles apart.
He and Wolfe soon contracted a friendship like the union of cannon and gunpowder.
A snowstorm had damaged the roads; the castle towers and battlemented walls with the loop-holes for the mouths of cannon showed with ghastly whiteness against the heavy clouds.
They stood mute witnesses against teachers and preachers, against creeds that crumbled when the cannon thundered.
He thought of George as clay to the hand of a sergeant, not as cannon fodder.
Then, the English fell on upon the Half Moons; and immediately the Redcoats were on the top of them; throwing the enemy into the moat, and turning the cannon upon the town.
So sundry, that thought themselves safe, were so dribbed at with cannon shot, that they never knew who did hurt them.
But we heard no more of the cannon nor anything in the neighbouring meadows of our pursuers.
In the morning the house is to be assaulted with cannon--nay, for aught I know the cannon may be on its way now.
Now when we turned into the courtyard of the old house the sight of the ruin caused by the cannon was like to make me weep, but I restrained myself and suffered Anthony Dacre to lead me within.
If they were bringing cannon against us it was all over.
We were now in full view of the Castle itself, and occasionally noted the discharge of its cannon which chiefly played, however, against the fort on Baghill, from whence most annoyance was caused to the besieged.
Captain Blackburn is coming in the early morning with more men, and they are bringing cannon with them.
Well then, to work: ourcannon shall be bent Against the brows of this resisting town.
At length they reached Cannon Street, and stopped at a house, the lower portion of which was a stationer's shop.
The morning of the memorable 23d of January dawned, and the bells were ringing in every tower, when three cannon gave the signal for the fight, and the battle of Montoni began.
And now the cannon roars from the English arsenal: the volumes of white smoke sweep over the bosom of the Thames;—the artillery salutes the royal standard of Castelcicala.
The moment our hero passed the inner drawbridge, the roar of cannon was renewed upon the ramparts; and the bells in all the towers commenced a merry peal.
The men-of-war in the roadstead thunder forth echoes to the cannonon the ramparts; and the yards are manned in token of respect for the representative of the sovereign power.
Then, under a salute from the cannon of the gallant vessel, the Marquis of Estella descends into a barge which has been sent from the arsenal to waft him ashore.
The lady then entered it, and directed the driver to take them to her residence, which was in Cannon Street, City.
So close were the two armies to each other—only half a cannon shot distant—that every sound on either side could be mutually heard.
The cannon of the arsenal thundered forth a parting salute in honour of the sovereign and his illustrious spouse who were returning to their native land from a long exile.
So, too, at his inauguration as President, Maclay noted that "this great man was agitated and embarrassed more than ever he was by the leveled cannon or pointed musket.
All the afternoon before, the roar of cannon has faintly sounded from the northward, and the people knew that Stark was meeting Baum and his Hessians, on the Hoosac.
If a man in an officer's uniform, with a shining piece of steel in his hand, should order Pete to jump into the mouth of a cannon, he would no more think of hesitating, than the cannon itself of refusing to go off when the linstock was pulled.
The front rank serves the rear rank as a shield from the bullets, but the cannon ball plows the whole length of the file and kills those behind as readily as those before.
Some even had heard that a cannon had been placed in front of the court house, and trained on the Stockbridge road.
Ef we on'y hed a cannon naow, ef 'twan't but a three-pounder!
The General asked counsel of us who were riding with him at the front what had best be done, whereupon Squire Sedgwick advised that half a dozen of us with horses should put spurs to them and dash suddenly upon the cannon and take it.
As we now approached the cannon at quick-step Abner Rathbun came around and stood in front of it, so we did not see it till we were close upon it.
If the cannon were loaded with a ball, it must needs cut a swathe like a scythe from the first man to the last, and if it were loaded with small balls, all of us who were near the front must needs go down at once.
Gosh naow wat wouldn't I give fer a cannon the size o' Mis Perry's yarn-beam thar.
And then, as no one had any other plan to propose, we were in a quandary, and I noted that each one had his eyes, as it were, fastened immovably upon the cannon and the glowing coal which the fellow held in the tongs.
The Place du Carrousel was filled with troops; but not a sword was unsheathed--not a bayonet pointed--not a musket or a cannon fired.
The Place de la Concorde was crowded with soldiers, and fifty cannon were ranged in front of the gardens.
In less than five minutes they were seen trotting off at a round pace, with their cannon jerking right and left over the rough ground behind them.
At the point where the Rue Montmartre crosses the Boulevard, the entire pavement was torn up, and something like a square breastwork was formed, in which a cannon was planted.
For four days the battle continued, the sound of cannon frequently filling the ears of the people all over the city.
By God,' said Checco, 'how willingly I would turn thecannon on them and mow them down like grass!
The Castellan had turned his cannon on the houses surrounding the fortress, and the damage was terrible.
He assured them that they were safe from the cannon shot of the enemy--that there were not men enough on board the vessels to storm their Fort, and finally closed with the emphatic declaration: "Give me liberty or give me death!
Before Mary could reply, the loud report of a cannon gave notice that the action had commenced.
The flash of the cannon o'er valley and height Danced like the swift fires of a northern night, Or the quivering glare which leaps forth as a token That the King of the Storm from his cloud-throne has spoken.
They could hear the deep humming sound of the cannon balls, to which they had become accustomed in the early part of the day, and some made themselves merry at the supposed folly of their assailants.
Hence a conqueror commonly acknowledged the political importance of bells by melting them down; and the cannon of the conquered was in turn melted up to supply the garrison with bells to be used in the suppression of revolts.
These were planned in the days of short-range guns, and were therefore in 1870 open to an overwhelming bombardment by the rifled cannon of the attack.
A woman screamed: "The brutes are firing cannoninto the poor strikers!
Cannon balls of clay Cantanagar, battle of Capitulation of Chandernagore, dispute as to terms of Capucins, church of Carnac, Major John Carryon, M.
A warehouse on which I put bales of gunny[26] to prevent cannon balls from breaking in the vaults of the roof, served it as a casemate.
However this might be, my cannon fired from 10 in the morning till 3 in the evening.
There is borne to our ears at every additional step the deepening growl of the cannon ahead.
I became half-delirious, and lay under a great oak-tree, too weak to walk, my head nearly splitting with the noise of a battery of steel cannon in position fifty yards to the left of me.
The cannon roared, muskets blazed away, and the combatants were near enough even to use pistols upon each other.
When the boat was made fast and the great pirate's head appeared above the rail, six cannon roared a welcome and Bonnet stepped forward, hand extended and hat uplifted.
As the pirate vessel came on, nearer and nearer, a great number of men could be seen stretched along her deck, and some brasscannon were visible trained upon the unfortunate brig.
There was to be no broadside, no timber-splitting cannon balls.
At that moment there was a flash at the bow of the approaching vessel, a little smoke, and then the report of a cannoncame over the water.
They rowed to the position assigned them and sat quietly looking into the mouths of the two cannon which were pointed towards them.
The cannon were filled to the muzzle with ammunition, and were fired so seasonably that they did great execution among the Japanese.
Finally, the whole force of Japanese attacked our fort on the side where the cannon were, without knowing what awaited them there.
Launcelot,--look yonder--just by the lastcannon on the rampart!
Here, I suppose, was the finest collection of cannonand small fire-arms in the world.
The yard is a very large affair, containing very many acres; it is the depository of the cannon belonging to the army and navy for all the region, and there were more than twenty thousand pieces lying upon the ground.
Here is the great Achilles of bronze, in honor of Wellington, made out of the cannon which the duke captured in Spain.
Immediately on entering, we were struck with the colossal bust of Nelson by Chantrey, A piece of the mast of the Victory, shot through by a cannon ball, forms its fitting pedestal.
Sully and Colbert; a good picture of Napoleon and Louis Philippe; the cannon ball which killed Marshal Turenne, and his equestrian statue in gold and silver.
The works were all destroyed, and the garrison, with the cannon and stores, withdrawn.
Burgoyne was already getting short of provisions, and before he could advance much further he needed a fresh supply of horses to drag thecannon and stores.
Were a cannon ball shot directly towards the sun, and it were to maintain its full speed, it would be twenty years in reaching it, and yet light travels through this space in seven or eight minutes.
I have heard,” said Louisa, “that a feather might be made to produce as much havoc as a cannon shot, if you could give it sufficient velocity.
