Nor was the garrison of the latter idle, for it kept up a brisk cannonade in our direction, even as we were looking towards it.
Next day, the 4th December, a furious cannonade raged outside the town, making a most terrific din, though still several miles away.
All this time a heavy cannonade was going on at the North-West side, in the direction of Orme; and the din and roll of battle apprised us of the fact that a hot engagement was being carried on not far off.
When the hour was up the cannonade ended as suddenly as it began, and profound silence followed close on the intolerable din.
To the cannonade that preceded the assault and announced it to the enemy must be attributed not only the failure but a great part of the loss.
Punctually at the hour fixed the cannonade opened.
The cannonade became pretty general, but the wind was too strong to continue the action.
The night was very dark, and we heard a smart cannonade in the E.
The Moniteur announced that On the 5th July, at eight o'clock in the morning, the cannonade commenced against six English ships, which lost no time in coming within musket-shot of the French vessels.
I escaped as fast as possible from the brisk cannonade which they maintained, hanging up the same lights as I observed them to have.
The soldier said: "Under a French cannonade which killed many, we were compelled by blows to dig in the most exposed situation the trenches the Germans now occupy, which are very wide and deep and cemented against damp at frequent intervals.
Just then the cannonade burst forth again with tremendous fury, and the German force which had come up had to retire.
More than once when the cannonade was especially violent we got nothing to eat all day but a couple of little old sardines; and, believe me, it takes a mighty strong stomach to stand that sort of treatment for any length of time.
On the twenty-fifth, he cleared away the brush and erected a battery, and placed upon it two long eighteen-pounders, and commenced a cannonade of the fortress.
From the cannonade of Valmy may be dated the commencement of that career of victory which carried their armies to Vienna and the Kremlin.
Goethe's description of the cannonade has been quoted.
Marlborough ordered up some of his batteries to reply to it, and while the columns that were to form the allied left and centre deployed, and took up their proper stations in the line, a warm cannonade was kept up by the guns on both sides.
Marlborough speedily occupied all the outlets from the village with his victorious troops, and then, collecting his artillery round it, he commenced a cannonadethat speedily would have destroyed Blenheim itself and all who were in it.
The Russian cannonade and musketry were kept up; fresh masses of defenders were poured into the fortifications, and at length the exhausted remnants of the Swedish columns recoiled from the blood-stained redoubts.
He now caused the batteries along the line of high ground held by him to be strengthened, and for some time an unremitting and most destructive cannonade raged across the valley, to the partial cessation of other conflict.
An officer was despatched with the news to the Sirdar, and on the instant both cannonade and fusillade broke out again behind the ridge, and grew in a crashing crescendo until the whole landscape seemed to vibrate with the sound of explosions.
The sound of the cannonade rolled up to us on the ridge, and was re-echoed by the hills.
After a sharp cannonade by the fleets, the forts were carried by a storming party under Captain Herbert.
On November 4, the allied commanders definitely arranged for a cannonade and an assault which was to place Sebastopol at their mercy.
At about the moment the cannonade began, Washington, Putnam, Greene, and Mercer were putting off from the Jersey shore at Fort Lee to make a final visit to Fort Washington, and determine whether to defend or evacuate the post.
When thecannonade at Kip's Bay began, Washington was four miles distant, at Harlem.
I had just arrived on Chatterton Hill in order to throw up some works when they hove in sight; as soon as they discovered us they commenced a severe cannonade but without any effect of consequence.
Douglas's description is as quaint as it is expressive: "They very suddenly began as heavy a cannonade perhaps as ever was from no more ships, as they had nothing to molest them.
Two or three days ago the Rose frigate went up between the islands and took shelter, after a severe cannonade from us, behind Blackwell's Island.
Mingled with the constant crashing of the cannonade was an irregular firing of muskets, like the pattering of rain-drops upon a roof.
While this cannonade was going on, I noticed the two rams casting loose from the shore.
A cannonadewas kept up on Commodore Davis's fleet, which was vigorously answered.
The air is calm, and the thunder of the cannonade rolls along the valley, reverberating from hill to hill.
The unceasing thunder of the cannonade drowns their cries.
The cannonade reverberates from the high bluff behind the city to the dark-green forest upon the Arkansas shore, and echoes from bend to bend.
The cannonade slackened, and sounds of rejoicing came from some of the native cafes, where it was reported that two ironclads were sunk and five were disabled.
At a little before eleven the cannonade recommenced, and a dozen reports were heard coming from the westward.
As soon as the cannonade was over, the exodus of natives from the town recommenced, and the streets were again filled.
A steady cannonade was maintained both by the attacking and defending forces, and for the next few hours the roar of the guns and the shrieks of passing shot and shell were alone audible.
Dongola hoisted the white flag, and the cannonade ceased.
In this she signally failed, and after a cannonade on both sides lasting for an hour, she had to return with the commander and two men wounded.
Before the cannonade had lasted many minutes the patrols reported the enemy to be advancing to attack.
Under cover of a heavy cannonade kept up by the artillery, the whole line of troops then advanced towards the various points held by the enemy.
As soon as the cannonade ceased, the troops at Moharrem Bey and Rosetta Gates precipitated themselves into the streets, calling on the natives to flee, as the dogs of Christians were going to disembark and massacre the Mussulmans.
We were not left long in peace, for on the morning of the 9th July the enemy moved out of the city in great force, and for several hours kept up an incessant cannonade on our front and right flank.
Just as day broke our guns advanced, but before they were in position the fight began by a cannonade from the rebel Artillery, which caused us severe loss.
The cannonade raged fast and furious, and at one time it seemed as though the day must be lost.
The following day they began to cannonade from the city walls, and in the afternoon repeated their attack.
The cannonade from within and without the city continued unceasing, and the enemy had again to be driven out of the near suburbs.
Gonsalvo immediately opened a lively cannonade on the old ramparts, which in less than four hours effected a considerable breach.
The work being completed, on the 6th of November the army advanced upon the bridge, supported by such a lively cannonade from the batteries along the shore, as made all resistance on the part of the Spaniards ineffectual.
Then at once above the average fusillade and cannonade rose the extraordinary rattling roll of Mauser musketry in great volume.
Near Prescott, his flotilla of batteaux suffered considerably by a cannonade from the British batteries, as they were passing that place on a moonlight night.
In a cannonadeof two hours and a half, only four shots struck the mill.
The earlycannonade brought every member of the family with eager questioning into the great kitchen.
While dressing, the sound of the distant cannonade caught his attentive ear.
The battle at that moment was beginning; the reveille of the cannonade at that early hour was waking thousands to engage in their last day's work in the service of their country.
It was ten miles to the field, but though so far, the cannonade seemed very near.
There has been a cannonade all along the line north and south of the Chickahominy.
There was a sharp skirmish and a brisk cannonade which lasted till dark.
All the while, there is a continuous cannonade by Poffenberger's, by Miller's, and in front of the church.
The cannonade went on for a half-hour, Easton's shells tearing the Rebel ranks, while those fired by the Rebels did no damage whatever.
Captain Tidball and Captain Pettit ran their batteries up on the hills near Porterstown, and commenced a cannonade which lasted till night.
They had long heard the terrific cannonade which was sending shattering echoes through the mountains, and both their chief and his second in command were eager to rush to the titanic combat.
Another night came, and he went to sleep in his lonely cell in the wall, but he was awakened while it was yet intensely dark by a cannonade far surpassing in violence any that had gone before.
But he had grown so used to the cannonade that it made little impression upon him, and, shrugging his shoulders, he descended the gangway with the captain.
The crash did not seem so loud to them now, because they were partly deafened for the time by a cannonade of such violence and length.
The enemy's ships at anchor were then fired; and by ten at night, after a cannonade of nearly nine hours, the town and fortifications of Algiers were in ruins.
He was especially conspicuous during the terrific cannonade that preceded the great charge of the third day, riding slowly up and down the lines.
Cushing commanded a battery on General Webb's line, and in the cannonade preceding the great charge on the third day all his guns but one were disabled, and he was mortally wounded.
And their water batteries played With their deadly cannonade Till the air around us rung.
On the morning of the 24th the cannonade opened, Prince Eugene himself firing the first gun on the right, the Prince of Orange that on the left attack.
The left line of the Austrian force, learning from the cannonade that the French were at Borghetto, hastened to ascend the Mincio with a view of assisting in the defense of the division engaged with the enemy.
The remaining bridge was now the only resource, and all indiscriminately endeavored to gain a footing on it; exposed to the incessant shower of Russian cannonade they fell and died in thousands.
When the relics of the cuirassiers at last withdrew, the French cannonade opened up furiously once more all along the line.
A tremendouscannonade then took place along the whole line; two hundred and three pieces of cannon, and nearly two hundred thousand men, being engaged, so that it was indeed a giant combat.
The tremendous cannonade of Waterloo resounded from the distance.
A distant cannonade was now heard in the direction of Wavres.
They were met by a storm of cannonadewhich broke their centre, and on either flank the French were all but routed.
The cannonadecontinued for considerable time; the Prussian centre was then attacked and beaten back, but its wings advancing, Count Lobau was obliged to retire.
A fresh cannonade was opened by the French along the British line, after the assaults of the cuirassiers, but no further advance was attempted by the former.
The cannonade of the French was successful at all points and the Austrians, disconcerted by Napoleon's brilliant movements, beat a hasty retreat leaving eight standards and twelve pieces of cannon.
The van of the same army turned, on hearing the cannonade of Champaubert, and countermarched with the view of supporting Alsusieff only to share the fate of the centre, and were put to flight after the loss of one-fourth of the division.
At sunrise the cannonadecommenced upon the two lines.
At daybreak on the 18th of September a heavy cannonade was opened against the walls, and after twelve hours' fire two breaches were made.
The cannonade was renewed on the following morning, and after 700 shots had been fired and the breaches enlarged, a fresh assault was ordered.
Two days later a tremendous cannonade was opened upon the town, and the walls broken down in several places, but the Spaniards did not advance to the assault, knowing that the town could not hold out many days longer.
At the end of three days' cannonade the breach, in spite of the efforts of the besieged, was practicable, and a strong storming party led by General Romero advanced against it.
Furious at the successful manner in which the party had entered the town on the 28th of January, Don Frederick kept up for the next few days a terrible cannonade against the gates of the Cross and of St. John, and the wall connecting them.
Boscawen might enter the harbor, overpower the French naval force, and cannonade the town on its weakest side.
At four o'clock on the day of the battle, after a furious cannonade on both sides, a trumpet sounded from the trenches, and an officer approached the fort with a summons to surrender.
Two armed vessels soon came to cannonade them; but their light guns were no match for the heavy artillery of the French, and they were forced to keep the offing.
At the same time a battery of more than forty heavy pieces, planted on the lofty promontory beyond the Montmorenci, began a furious cannonade upon the flank of the French intrenchments.
Men deserted hourly, some to the country, and some to the English camp; while Townshend pushed his trenches nearer and nearer to the walls, in spite of the cannonade with which Piedmont and his artillerymen tried to check them.
Day after day the weary roar of the distant cannonade fell on the ears of Webb in his camp at Fort Edward.
At daybreak the frigates of the squadron, anchoring before each point of real or pretended attack, opened a fierce cannonade on the French intrenchments; and, a quarter of an hour after, the three divisions rowed towards the shore.
He had passed the preceding night in great agitation; and when the cannonade on the river ceased, he hastened to raise the siege.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cannonade" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
