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- noun Plural form of
cannonier .
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Examples
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At this point the left of the regiment was near the right of the house, and I claim that my officers and men captured two large brass pieces, literally punching the cannoniers from their guns.
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Walls and ramparts went down before the lusty cannoniers of Burgundy; we were well secured also by intrenchments against those whom we heard of as approaching to raise the siege.
Anne of Geierstein 2008
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I have a battery an hundred yards in advance covering the access to this hollow way; let us see if my German cannoniers are at their post, and I think I can swear that we shall find them so.
Anne of Geierstein 2008
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I was on foot fighting as I could, without hopes of my life, or indeed thoughts of saving it, when I saw the guns taken and my faithful cannoniers slain.
Anne of Geierstein 2008
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“Tiens! ils sont fatigues, les cannoniers des forts!” — and why?
Burlesques 2006
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“Tiens! ils sont fatigues, les cannoniers des forts!” — and why?
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Spaniards, some cannoniers, some soldiors, and some people of the countrey, for the defence thereof: beside powder, shot and match accordingly, for the artillery, and also thirty small peeces or caliuers.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Artillery and wagons still stuck fast in the mud, and cannoniers and teamsters lifted and tugged with rails and with poles to raise the piece or the wagon from the mire.
Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865 George T. Stevens
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Fifteenth Indiana sprang to arms; the cannoniers gathered about their guns, and a thousand eyes peered into the darkness to get a glimpse of the approaching enemy.
The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer John Beatty
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At this point the left of the regiment was near the right of the house, and I claim that my officers and men captured two large brass pieces, literally punching the cannoniers from their guns.
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger
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