Sentence examples for cannon attack from inspiring English sources

The Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan ordered a cannon attack.

As she strategizes for the general election, she should stop with the "loose cannon" attack.

The walls themselves, a triple line of defense, with 192 towers at alternate intervals in the inner and middle wall, were far in advance of anything erected previously; they were, indeed, so well conceived that they served to protect the city against every assault until the Turks, supported by cannon, attacked with vastly superior odds in 1453.

In February 1643 a large force from the castle armed with cannon attacked the house, which was defended by only 80 men.

Formations of Stukas, including a small number of experimental 3.7 cm BK 37 cannon-equipped G-2 variants, commanded by Staffelkapitan Hans-Ulrich Rudel, Fw 190 fighter-bombers and Hs 129 ground-attack aircraft equipped with 3 cm anti-tank cannon attacked the Soviet formations.

Under intense cannon fire, the American attack was stopped, but the soldiers fought tenaciously until the British fell back toward Brunswick.

Women and children lay dead and wounded in and around one big house where they had been gathered for an engagement party, torn apart by cannon fire from the American attack plane, an AC-130 gunship.

Subjected to continual cannon fire and a frontal attack by skirmishers and a column of elite troops, the Austrians were defeated.

was fortunate to have a cargo of coal when two unidentified aircraft attacked her with cannon fire.

On returning, they found that the colony had endured a surprise attack and had managed to drive the attackers away only with cannon fire from the ships.

Around this time, the secondary battery was reduced to six 5 inch (127 mm) guns and the light AA battery was greatly increased, with two 1.1 inch (28 mm) quad mounts replaced by 6 (later 10) 40 mm quad mounts and 44 20 mm cannon, the attack on Pearl Harbor having demonstrated the need for this.