That may sound like just another cannonade from Rudy Giuliani in the mayor's bitter new battle to wrest control of New York's schools from Rudy Crew, the schools chancellor.
Despite a cannonade from British men-of-war in the harbour and from a battery across the river in north Boston, the colonists continued to strengthen their position.
A Scottish army crossed the border in August and the king's troops panicked before a cannonade at Newburn.
Enjoyment will depend on how you get on with the voice and its hooting cannonade of mannerisms.
A century ago, President Alvaro Obregon used to say, "There is no [Mexican] general who can withstand a cannonade of 50,000 pesos".
Instead, when, in the play's last line, Fortinbras calls for a cannonade to honor Hamlet — "Go, bid the soldiers shoot" — his lieutenant whips out a pistol and kills Horatio.
Osborne's cannonade was aimed at the body politic as well as at the people around him.
He produced a cannonade of burps, followed by a word of demure apology to no one: "Oh, goodness, who let that go?" He walked around heavily in his sock feet, yawned with a high-pitched keening sound that only a man used to living alone ever makes.
"I have sustained a continual Bombardment and cannonade for twenty-four hours and have not lost a man.
At the finale of the last "Hamlet" to be seen in New York (the 2008 Public Theatre production in Central Park), Fortinbras called for a hero's cannonade to honor the slain Prince of Denmark — "Go, bid the soldiers shoot" — only to have his lieutenant whip out a pistol and shoot Horatio.
The fountain spews its cannonade of water, and that enunciation of weightlessness will come back during Mahler's First.
