Sentence examples for canister shot from inspiring English sources

The regiment suffered more than 50 casualties, including 18 killed and wounded when a spray of lead balls from single Confederate canister shot tore into one company.

A witness, Toll tells us, compared the combined effect of the English grape shot, canister shot and musketry to a "pelting gale" as it swept the Chesapeake's quarterdeck.

At dawn on Sept. 17, Hooker's infantry attacked through a cornfield, cutting down the head-high corn with canister shot from the artillery, which were directed towards Confederate forces at the West Woods and a Dunker church (the Dunkers were a German Baptist denomination).

The garrison of Royal Marines opened fire and the artillery crews switched to canister shot.

Swept by canister shot at short range, the Brunswickers broke and rallied at the crossroads itself.

The cavalry spurred forward but were met with a volley of canister shot which struck Maxwell, killing him instantly.

They see a day when the cheaply built machines — less than a dollar apiece, Dr. Kaplan predicts — could be crammed into a canister and shot into a minefield.

Other projectiles developed for special purposes included the carcass, canister, grapeshot, chain shot, and bar shot.

Ball, canister, and grape shot took a terrible toll of Union men," he remembered.

Other parts of the ship, including wooden carvings and a canister of cannon shot, have already been lifted from the seabed.

Their seizure of the gun was the signal for the British counterattack, which began with a barrage of canister and grape shot, and was followed by an infantry charge.