The word "cannoneer" is correct and can be used in written English
It is used to refer to a person who operates a cannon. For example, "As a cannoneer in the 18th century, John fought in many battles."
The Huntington Community Band, for instance, will perform several times, culminating on July 29, when it will be joined by a live cannon (and cannoneer) for Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture.
No other filmmaker would dare to place a pair of magnificent hams like Walter Brennan (as the coonskin-cap-wearing Tennessee woodsman who is Jackson's aide-de-camp) and Akim Tamiroff (as an erstwhile French cannoneer — Napoleon's favorite! — who is now Lafitte's right-hand man) in the same film, much less in the same shot.
John Cook, 15, was a bugler who volunteered to act as a cannoneer under enemy fire at Antietam, Md., while Cpl.
Stanford typically fired a cannon at home games whenever its team scored, and that day no one had thought to stay the eager hand of the cannoneer.
During the first Balkan War, in 1912, he fought against the Turks as a Romanian Army cannoneer.
It was later in the Peninsular Campaign that taps was first played at a military funeral after an artillery cannoneer was killed in action.
And then, when you are attacking cities, you must endure the same procedure of firing your cannons at enemy cannoneers who seem to be in the exact same spots every time.
Despite heroic efforts, only several hundred Southerners temporarily breached the low rock wall at the Federal's centre; the rest were shot down by Union cannoneers and riflemen, captured, or thrown back, suffering casualties of almost 60 percent.
The Greeks have forgiven the clumsiness of the Venetian engineers, the accuracy of Venetian cannoneers, and the vandalism of the Turks, but they still nurture rancour against Elgin.
We are the cannoneers, necessary voodoo".
A Union commander on horseback told the Confederate cannoneers, "You boys sounded great!" and an artillerymen, in turn, told the passing federal Irish brigade, "Awesome job, guys.
