smooth-bores

There is no need to count the smooth-bores, for the "Merrimac-Monitor" fight had proved how little they could do even against weak armour.

Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima John Richard Hale

Navy cannon powder in all other rifles and all smooth-bores.

Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance

This is high testimony to the fighting capacity of two hundred riflemen and four guns, two twelve-pounder smooth-bores and two howitzers, all that Admiral Porter's three gunboats had to contend with.

Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War Richard Taylor

The commodore's flag flew on the old steam line-of-battle ship "Kaiser," a three-decker with ninety-two guns on her broadsides, all smooth-bores except a couple of rifled 24-pounders.

Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima John Richard Hale

The blind bard omits to inform us whether the guns used in the great pounding-match between Lucifer and Michael were smooth-bores or rifles.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 Various

In trying to get the equipment I met with checks and rebuffs, and in return was the cause of worry and concern to various bureau chiefs who were unquestionably estimable men in their private and domestic relations, and who doubtless had been good officers thirty years before, but who were as unfit for modern war as if they were so many smooth-bores.

VII. The War of America the Unready 1913

In trying to get the equipment I met with checks and rebuffs, and in return was the cause of worry and concern to various bureau chiefs who were unquestionably estimable men in their private and domestic relations, and who doubtless had been good officers thirty years before, but who were as unfit for modern war as if they were so many smooth-bores.

An Autobiography Roosevelt, Theodore 1913

Their breaching guns, necessarily placed at extreme range, were old-fashioned smooth-bores of light caliber, save a rifled 12 dr., which for such a purpose was a mere toy.

Memoirs of the War of Secession 1910

He had nothing but smooth-bores, firing round shot.

Memoirs of the War of Secession 1910

Ten guns were mounted: six nine-inch smooth-bores, with two six-inch and two seven-inch rifles.

Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray William Charles Henry Wood 1905