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She rounded up to leeward of the American ship and continued to pour in grape- and roundshot as fast as her crews could fire and load—a rippling broadside about every two minutes or less.

John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003

She rounded up to leeward of the American ship and continued to pour in grape- and roundshot as fast as her crews could fire and load—a rippling broadside about every two minutes or less.

John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003

Men in square were safe from cavalry yet horribly vulnerable to shell and roundshot, but gunners were equally vulnerable to the accuracy of the British Baker rifles.

Sharpe's Battle Cornwell, Bernard 1995

The roundshot whipped through the columns and musket fire raked the files to slow the already agonizingly slow retreat.

Sharpe's Battle Cornwell, Bernard 1995

Other gunners were piling ammunition close to the guns: squat cylinders of roundshot ready-strapped to their canvas bags of gunpowder.

Sharpe's Battle Cornwell, Bernard 1995

The guns 'ready magazines held a mixture of roundshot and case shot.

Sharpe's Battle Cornwell, Bernard 1995

A Highlander vomited blood, then collapsed across a grave that had been so churned by shell and roundshot that the pelvic and wrist bones of a corpse lay among the soil.

Sharpe's Battle Cornwell, Bernard 1995

A pair of British guns was working close to the rocks, blasting roundshot and shell at a newly placed French battery beside the wood Sharpe had just abandoned.

Sharpe's Battle Cornwell, Bernard 1995

A rumble in the sky announced the passage of a French roundshot, but the General did not even look up to see where the shot might fall.

Sharpe's Battle Cornwell, Bernard 1995

A French galloper gun unlimbered on the village's northern flank and slashed a roundshot into the ca-adores 'ranks.

Sharpe's Battle Cornwell, Bernard 1995