De Candia was posted with two small falconets and three arquebusiers on the roof of the fortress.
Authorities vary as to the number of men in the expedition, but there were between five hundred and fifty and six hundred Spaniards, two hundred Indian servants, ten small pieces of artillery, four falconets and sixteen horses.
Gathering headway as they advanced, the vessels crashed into the massed flotilla with frightful effect, at the same time letting fly their falconets to right and left.
Mesa's grim gunners blew the matches, kept dry beneath their cloaks, into brighter flame and chuckled hoarsely as they thought of the havoc their falconets would make when once turned loose.
The caravels, though only manned by thirty men, carried four heavy guns below, six falconets and twelve swivel guns.
Upon this I turned two falconets toward the staircase, with mind resolved to let blaze on the first man who attempted to come up.
I aimed some swivels and falconets at points where I saw it would be useful, and killed with them a good number of the enemy.
Other likely varieties are the white-legged and red-legged falconets (H.
Several of the falconets might certainly be utilised in the field, and amongst them especially Feilden's falcon, which is very common, very bold, and very tame.
Whereupon I ordered Calvagh to bid the oarsmen stop rowing, and bringing the falconets into position trained them on the enemy, myself putting the blazing torch to the touch-hole.
And as there were but two falconets on The Cross of Blood, her other cannon having been removed from her to the walls of the castle, we were not able to reply to the enemy’s fire with any effect.
Finally came three companies of artillery with culverines and falconets and with five wagons, and behind them the massed drummers and fifers who brought up the rear playing gay music as they marched.
He heard nothing except the crystalline chime of some village bell, while from Bruges there came to him by fits and starts the music of the carillons and a great din of falconets and fireworks let off in honour of the Blessed Blood.
There is a mine under the gate, or there will be; but there is a good wall behind the gate, and I have given command to put falconets on it.
As to finding, I doubt that, though there are some falconetsstanding near; but take the spikes.
The falconets which you have upon the poop can make but a poor resistance to boats that can row around us, and are no doubt furnished with heavy metal.
The crew of the Rose replied with theirfalconets and sakers from the poop.
The cannon were ready on the dike, the falconets were charged in the ships, and the men of Sandoval slept with swords and matches in their hands, and with their eyes open.
Instantly, and as if by enchantment, the four falconets in the brigantines were discharged, and swept hundreds of the barbarians from the causeway.
Are there not two deep ditches on the side towards the mountains, which no ladder of the League can scale, and walls twelve feet thick, with high towers, whence the falconets keep up no insignificant fire, I can tell you?
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