This was very hard work; each man carried a round shotin a biscuit-bag on his back, sinking deep in the usual mud at every step: this and dragging big guns into position occupied the whole day.
The clouds had cleared and it was intensely hot; the funeral took place at two o'clock; we saw the body sewed up in a hammock with a round shot at its feet, and borne by the men of his battery from his cabin and laid upon the deck.
The roaring of round shot, whistling and bursting of shells, filled the intervals between the deafening roll of big guns.
Among these Major Macdonald was included, his horse was killed by a round shot, and he received a severe fall, but never for a moment lost his coolness and equanimity.
One was cut in two by a round shot as he approached.
The ladies had to be removed, as the upper story of Mr. Gubbins’ house was no longer safe, owing to the number of round shot through it.
The sick and wounded were much crowded, as they could not use the upper story of the hospital because it was under fire of round shot.
All this was only the work of a few minutes, when we let drive from our whole 46 guns as hard as we could, firing occasionally with moorsom shell as well as round shot--such a row, and such dense smoke as was never seen or heard.
I had hold of the branch of a tree, clearing it from my head, when a round shot cut it off just above me.
When a part of the body is carried away by round shot or shell, the arteries are observed to be nearly in the same state as they are found to be in when a limb is torn off by machinery.
Large fragments of heavy shells generally produce immense laceration and separation of the parts against which they strike, but do not carry away or grind, as round shot.
When a bone is shattered, a cavity penetrated, an important viscus wounded, a limb carried away by a round shot, pain is not so prominent a symptom as the general perturbation and alarm which supervene on the injury.
That at length caught fire; and while the heroic garrison were dragging forth their wounded countrymen from the flames, the mutineers poured in on them incessant volleys of musketry, and a continued shower of round shot.
He also on the same day saved the life of Private Gardner, whose leg was fractured by a round shot, by carrying him to the rear from under a heavy cross fire, and from a spot immediately afterwards occupied by Russians.
His right leg was shattered by a round shot at Waterloo, and he died soon after suffering amputation.
At Waterloo he had three horses shot under him, was struck by a round shot on the leg, and sev.
Waterloo by a round shot, which broke his charger’s back at same time.
From an officer detached in advance we learnt the place had been taken by assault three days previously, and that the Comte de Damremont, general in command, had been cut in two by a round shot, while he was talking to my brother Nemours.
We next came to the Bailey-guard; and as we looked at the battered walls and gateway, not an inch without a mark from a round shot or bullet, we marvelled that Aitken and Loughman could have managed to defend it for nearly five months.
I went off to the Artillery camp, and refreshed the inner man with a steak cut off a gun bullock which had been killed by a round shot on the 14th.
During this time she fired away in return at the enemy, who appeared abreast of her, every charge of grape and canister on board, and was then reduced to round shot.
About fifty shells were thrown into the town, and our boats fired four hundred round shot, besides grape and canister.
Blyth of the English vessel was almost cut in two by a round shot as he stood on his quarter-deck.
One of the men at the gun where Bill Bowls was at work was in the act of handing a round shot to Bill, when a ball entered the port-hole and hit him on the head, scattering his brains over the gun.
Haul and belay your pieces, Master Gunner, and let 'em have a salvo of round shot.
The pinnace had been staved in by the thunderbolt of a gun and the yawl, stowed upon the cabin roof, was wrecked by round shot.
The dead pirates were flung overboard but the bodies of seven brave British seamen were wrapped in sailcloth to be committed to the deep on the morrow, with a round shot at their feet and a prayer to speed their souls.
The first bit of cheer was when his foot struck a round object as solid as a round shot and he picked up a small Dutch cheese.
Among these was O'Grady, whose left arm had been carried away below the elbow by a round shot.
I was carrying a message on the battle-field; when I was taking a wall my horse was struck with a round shot.
Galloping at a low stone wall, the horse was in the act of rising to clear it when it was struck in the head by a round shot.
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