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Example sentences for "cannonaded"

Lexicographically close words:
cannister; cannisters; canno; cannon; cannonade; cannonades; cannonading; cannonball; cannonballs; cannoned
  1. At Jolo it cannonaded the town for ten hours and then left for Mindanao, where it inflicted considerable damage.

  2. The fleet cannonaded the forts for seventy-two continuous hours.

  3. The Pile battery was in a much worse condition, it being hotly cannonaded by the ships, and threatened every moment to crumble to pieces.

  4. La Fayette was probably not aware that General Phillips was dying at Bollingbrook, or he would not have cannonaded it.

  5. Batteries being raised on the nearest islands, the fort was cannonaded not only by them, but likewise by the armed sloops, and a disposition was made for giving the assault, when M.

  6. The French had taken possession of the heights of Herdeeren, immediately above the allies; and both armies cannonaded each other till the evening.

  7. On the twelfth he marched over Choultry plain, in three divisions, cannonaded by the English artillery with considerable effect, and took post at Egmore and St. Thome.

  8. Dem-min was cannonaded by the Prussians on the twenty-ninth of December; and the Swedes having lost one officer and forty men, desired to capitulate.

  9. The enemy cannonaded them briskly during this interval, and did some execution, but the Prussian artillery was not idle.

  10. The Prussians immediately cannonaded the enemy's cavalry, who received it with resolution, having on their right hand a village, and on their left a wood whore they had intrenched themselves.

  11. On Sunday, July 1st, the regiment was cannonaded by some floating batteries, losing four killed and eight wounded.

  12. The French with three and the English with two small pieces of artillery cannonaded each other for nearly an hour.

  13. Here they shelled and cannonaded him all day; though, from his elevated position, with very little effect.

  14. Having constructed a number of rafts, on which were placed pieces of artillery, the governor went aboard the largest of them, and with the aid of the vessels cannonaded the fort of Corralat for the space of four hours, but he defended it well.

  15. On the 29th, the Boyne, as usual sailing towards the fort, was becalmed by the high land of Houelmont, and being within a short distance, was cannonaded from that battery for several hours.

  16. The enemy, unconscious of this movement, cannonaded and bombarded the fort as usual, until two o'clock the next morning, though the embarkation had been completed by eleven the preceding night.

  17. The small vessels under Noronha cannonaded the fort, principally on purpose to draw off the attention of the Moors, that they might not interrupt the zamorin on the land side, who was establishing his camp for the purpose of the siege.

  18. The corvettes took shelter under the batteries, where they were driven on shore and cannonaded by the Flora and Arethusa, until their masts fell, and great part of their crews escaped to the land.

  19. They afterwards ventured to attack Ticonderoga and Mount Independence, and cannonaded them four days before they were repulsed.

  20. They threatened his flank with cavalry, and cannonaded him severely.

  21. Guaymas was cannonaded a little (October 6), and Mazatlan suffered a rather nominal blockade of about four weeks.

  22. Guaymas was cannonaded because the Mexicans refused to give up two gunboats, preferring to burn them.

  23. All admitted that it would not be tenable, should it be cannonaded and bombarded.

  24. In the course of the day, a rumor reached Philadelphia that Boston had been cannonaded by the British.

  25. During these two busy nights the enemy's batteries were cannonaded and bombarded from opposite points, to occupy their attention, and prevent their noticing these preparations.

  26. The French ships were severely cannonaded as they passed the batteries, but without material damage.

  27. It was cannonaded at the same time by the armed vessels, and a demonstration was made on it by the division under General Vaughan.

  28. Ranvier vigorously cannonaded Montmartre, when a despatch from the Committee of Public Safety informed him that the red flag was floating from the Moulin de la Galette.

  29. The following day the Versaillese cannonaded the barricade and the Avenue of Neuilly.

  30. Ten thousand men were launched against Bougival, and the batteries placed on the hill of La Jonchere cannonaded Rueil.

  31. From four o'clock they cannonaded the Palais-Royal, round which desperate battles were being fought.

  32. Cissey, with more modest strategy, cannonaded the Butte aux Cailles, before which his men had so often turned tail.

  33. The barricade of the Rue de Reuilly, at the corner of the Faubourg St. Antoine, held out a few hours against the soldiers who cannonaded it from the Boulevard Mazas.

  34. The Versaillese cannonaded it while it was protected by the Porte-Maillot.

  35. At mid-day the Versaillese, having cannonaded the barracks of Courbevoie and the barricade, launched themselves to the assault.

  36. By the 23d two batteries were opened against the fort, and it was cannonaded by them in concert with the row-galleys in the river.

  37. The besiegers had now pushed their approaches as far as the ditch, and vigorously cannonaded the fortifications from the abandoned batteries.

  38. It was chased and even cannonaded by a parliamentary cruiser.

  39. Doria then made a tentative movement against the strait by a detachment of galleys; Barbarossa told off an equal number to oppose them, and they mutually cannonaded and skirmished during the day.

  40. The enemy cannonaded our columns crossing the bridge and occasionally gave the skirmishers some discharges of grape.

  41. Sidenote: 23rd] Marched to San Munoz, upon the Huebra, and under very different feelings I now passed through the river at the same ford where the French had cannonaded us on the 17th of November last.

  42. The enemy got up guns and infantry, and as the Light Division descended to pass the ford, which was rapid and breast-high, their guns cannonaded us and killed several men and some officers.

  43. We came upon a considerable body of them again near the village of La Cunca, where we again cannonaded them, and where our people had some slight skirmishing with their rear.

  44. A squadron having cannonaded the line of batteries, secured this object, when the Army was disembarked upon the evening and morning of the 16th and 17th of January.

  45. The Marines of the fleet were dispersed over the different posts of defence, some of which were cannonaded by the enemy, daily increasing in numbers.

  46. On the 1st of May, the French having cannonaded and made a breach, they a fourth time risqued a storm, but they were repulsed with heavy loss.

  47. The first attack was against Fort Fornelle, which was cannonaded by two of the ships, and fell after a contest of four hours.


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