I heard two vollies fired into the prison, that killed one man and wounded another--and further the deponent saith not.
Next morning we threw overboard our dead man and gave him two French vollies and one English one.
English vollies and one French volley of small arms.
On the evening of May 12th his body was found; which they took up, and next day "threw him overboard, giving him three French vollies for his customary ceremony.
So, now will they end Their war in vollies of shot upon me.
Come away, you shall hear what vollies we shall Have from the castle.
About this time the Indians under the command of Paullu the brother of Inca Manco Capac, attacked the left wing of the royalists with repeated vollies of stones and arrows, but were soon put to flight by a few discharges from the musqueteers.
He immediately left the king and communicated the intelligence to the troops, who got immediately under arms, and fired several vollies in token of our joy.
As Pizarro noticed that the pikemen in the army of Orgognez carried their pikes high, he gave orders to his musketeers to fire a little high, by which means in two vollies they broke above fifty of the enemies pikes[17].
At the gate, however, notwithstanding all his exertions, the closing numbers detained our progress for above a quarter of an hour; and vollies of blows were necessary to clear the entrance.
They were all armed with pikes, matchlocks, swords and shields; and gave us two vollies as a salute.
After vollies of abuse on both sides, we were content as before to take up our quarters in the open fields, under the shade of a tree, that luckily was situated near the village, and saved us from an ardent sun.
On the 4th the Mexicans again resumed the fight and continued their vollies until midnight.
Seeing this, Thornton turned to the right, and skirted the interior of the chapparal with his command, whilst the enemy poured in theirvollies in every direction.
A rattling discharge of small arms was then opened upon the square, but well aimed vollies from its front soon silenced all further efforts of the Mexicans in that quarter.
So hot was the fire of the Voltigeurs, however, that the enemy soon found out his mistake, and brought his volliesto bear, as well as he could, in the right direction.
The Kentuckians slowly advanced through the wood, receiving two vollies from the British line, before they were out of it.
At day-light in the morning the ships of war had fired twenty-one guns each, which was repeated at noon, and answered by three vollies from the battalion of marines.
At the close three vollies were fired in honour of the occasion, and the battalion marched back to their parade, where they were reviewed by the Governor, who was received with all the honours due to his rank.
They did not neglect to keep the day holy, for "we gave in the morning early three vollies of shot for solemnization of that great festival.
In the evening when the pale Magellan Clouds were showing we buried him in the sea, according to the usual custom of mariners, giving him three French vollies for his funeral.
At about an hour of sun, while we were eating our breakfasts, vollies of musketry were heard in advance.
Others continued to manifest the utmost indifference, and some laughed at the vollieswhich announced the slaughter of comrades.
To complete this catalogue of horrors, we heard the voices of sailors from time to time louder than the blustering winds, or the raging ocean itself, uttering horrible vollies of curses and oaths.
After this we continued our course to the landing-place, where I caused several vollies to be fired, to convince the natives that we could support a continual fire.
They were armed with small painted targets and tin tubes, from which they shot vollies of confetti, in such quantities, and with such dexterous aim, that we were almost overwhelmed whenever we passed them.
Day after day, they stormed the quarters of the beleaguered foe, pouring in upon them vollies of arrows, darts and stones, that sorely discomfited, though it could not dislodge them.
From every lane and alley, and from the roof of every house, they pelted them with ceaseless vollies of stones.
The rest gave diverse vollies of shot, and engaged as far as the place and their own necessities permitted, so as to keep the weather-gage of the enemy, till night parted them.
Half the number which the mortar contains must be driven one and a half diameters with composition, and the other half, two diameters; so that, when fired, they may give two vollies of reports.
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