Sentence examples for cannon firing from inspiring English sources

It is a 15-acre waterfront park with a Timucua native American village, a planetarium and more cannon firing.

During most of the black-powder era, with smoothbore cannon firing spherical projectiles, artillery fire was never precisely accurate at long ranges.

In 1953 the U.S. Army introduced the Skysweeper, a 75-millimetre automatic cannon firing 45 shells per minute, aimed and fired by its own radar-computer system.

The German fighter was armed with two 7.62-mm machine guns in the cowling and two wing-mounted cannon firing 20-mm exploding shells.

Police responded by dousing loyalists with water cannon, firing 26 plastic baton rounds and arresting seven people for offences including riotous behaviour, disorderly behaviour and hijacking.

French forces in the Franco-German War endeavoured to use it in a manner similar to artillery, but it was no match for breech-loading cannon firing explosive shells.

A cannon fired golden confetti on to their heads.

A cannon fired from a mountaintop will throw a projectile farther if its muzzle velocity is increased.

"The police threatened with them water from the water cannon, fired tear gas and stun grenades.

Throughout the day several British cannon fired on the Americans but there were few casualties.

Full cannon fired a 42 pound shot, but were discontinued by the 18th century, as they were too unwieldy.