musketball

He was killed by a musketball to the neck at the Siege of Maastricht in the summer of 1673 – just feet from the great, great, great grandfather of Winston Churchill.

Real People From The Three Musketeers | myFiveBest 2009

This is back before they were surrounded by wood even–soldiers would write with musketball lead, it being poor enough quality to rub off.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Descriptivism and What Words Mean: 2007

In The Deerslayer, one of the Leatherstocking Tales, by James Fenimore Cooper, Natty Bumppo, as part of a marksmanship competition, puts a musketball into the bullseye hole left by a previous contestant.

Superpowerful James Killus 2007

In The Deerslayer, one of the Leatherstocking Tales, by James Fenimore Cooper, Natty Bumppo, as part of a marksmanship competition, puts a musketball into the bullseye hole left by a previous contestant.

Archive 2007-07-01 James Killus 2007

Two versions of her death were told at the time: she was murdered by the Indians; she was hit by a musketball fired at the Indians by a colonial soldier.

Mummies & Bones as Television Stars 2004

Then there was the charging and the shooting, grapeshot and musketball.

Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

Then there was the charging and the shooting, grapeshot and musketball.

Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997

It was the injury to him at Fredricksburg—“I was struck by a musketball” he explained, “which went through both my over- and under-coats, and was stopped by striking the knife in my pants pocket”—that threw the staff work of the Second Corps entirely out of gear that afternoon.7 As for risk, exposure, and danger, he met them without thought.

Lee’s Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1971

It was the injury to him at Fredricksburg—“I was struck by a musketball” he explained, “which went through both my over- and under-coats, and was stopped by striking the knife in my pants pocket”—that threw the staff work of the Second Corps entirely out of gear that afternoon.7 As for risk, exposure, and danger, he met them without thought.

Lee’s Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1971

It was the injury to him at Fredricksburg—“I was struck by a musketball” he explained, “which went through both my over- and under-coats, and was stopped by striking the knife in my pants pocket”—that threw the staff work of the Second Corps entirely out of gear that afternoon.7 As for risk, exposure, and danger, he met them without thought.

Lee’s Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1971