grapeshots in a sentence
Examples
- With Lady Coleridge's gentle encouragement I cheerfully returned his grapeshot ."
- She was seriously wounded by grapeshot shortly before the Hessians overran the battery.
- Though the troops suffered from grapeshot and musket fire they did not waver.
- They could also be used to fire grapeshot.
- They were met with a barrage of grapeshot and canister from newly converted gunboats.
- Hoghton was killed in the action and Inglis struck by a 4 lb grapeshot.
- They had a quarter of a mile of open ground to cross under grapeshot.
- Three grapeshot from the next broadside killed him.
- Rounds of grapeshot were fired into the advancing troops but they continued to attack.
- Grapeshot was a naval weapon, and existed for almost as long as naval artillery.