I felt very unwilling to fire upon them, and still continued making signs of peace and friendship, but all to no purpose.
I felt very much inclined to fire upon them, but desisted, as I feared they would revenge themselves on him in their retreat.
Still I felt unwilling tofire upon them, and tried again to make them understand that we wished to do them no harm.
Sumter, Moultrie, Bee and Cummings Point concentrated their fire upon her, and for forty minutes she fought heroically for the breach in Sumter.
To the governor's letter Major Anderson replied, that he would refer the whole matter to the government at Washington, and defer his purpose to fire upon vessels in the harbor until he could receive his instructions in reply.
Marsh battery (between Morris and James islands), designed to fire upon Charleston at 7,000 yards, completed by the enemy.
No sooner, however, had the boat got within the range of their guns, than the Sardinians opened a fire upon it, and killed the officer and fourteen of his men, and wounding nearly all the rest.
As they approached the Americans opened a fire upon them, and Cameron and two of his company were slain.
The Russians, vindictively and cowardly, continued to fire upon it while any living object was seen upon its decks.
And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them to the hold, and set the hold on fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.
The tender was immediately laid alongside, but on the gang's attempting to board they encountered a resistance so fierce that Sax, thinking to bring the infuriated crew to their senses, ordered his people to fire upon them.
His first impulse was to fire upon them, but holding his rifle in readiness he waited for them to come nearer.
Without hesitation he proceeded to the spot where the canoe had been hidden and, as he began to dig the sand, the hunter ordered his companions to fire upon him.
Occasionally the red men were seen, and not infrequently they crept close enough to the fort, or to the men when they were toiling in the forests or fields, to fire upon them; but as yet no concerted attack had been made.
If we wait until dark and then creep up to the fort, the guards will be likely to fire upon us, mistaking us for Indians.
The men on the boats did not know who the cavalry were, and our men were afraid to fire upon them, lest they might endanger Captain Morgan and their comrades with him, on the other side.
They were instructed not to fire upon, or in anywise alarm the pickets, or do anything which might make them suspect our vicinity.
Again the undaunted Murphy prepared to fire upon it; but this time, made desperate by his very cowardice, Major Woolsey commanded his soldiers to arrest the disobedient rifleman.
Murphy, from his position on the ramparts, answered to the flag, warning it away, threatening in event of its closer approach to fire upon it.
They cried and shouted, demanded their freedom, and called on the soldiers tofire upon them.
This obliged us tofire upon them, and unfortunately either 2 or 3 were kill'd and one wounded, and 3 jumped overboard.
We must keep them from getting closer if we can; when they once get near the foot of the palisade we shall not be able to depress our guns enough to fire upon them.
Of course, until we get news that war is declared we can't fire upon a Frenchman; while if one arrived with the news before we got it, he might sail up close by us and pour in a broadside.
My father wanted to kill them, and began to fire upon them.
We preserved such a distance from them, as to be out of the reach of their arrows, and had no intention to fire upon them.
We were not disposed to contest the point with him, but proposed a bet of a suit of the finest cloth, and to settle the point by killing one of the herd, if the commander would permit us to fire upon it.
The ministers of justice are empowered to fire upon them as public enemies, wherever they meet them, in case of resistance or refusal to deliver up the arms they carry about them.
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