Sentence examples for french firing from inspiring English sources

Captain Edward Thornbrough of Robust obeyed immediately and closed with the French, firing into the frigates Embuscade and Coquille as he passed, before closing with Hoche and, at 08 50, beginning a bitter close-range artillery duel.

Mata Hari is shot as a spy by a French firing squad that is reportedly blindfolded so as to render it immune to her charms.

During World War I, she was arrested on charges of working as a German agent, and in 1917, at age 41, she was shot by a French firing squad.

She led so many men to their peril and doom under her assumed name of Mata Hari, she had to be stopped by a French firing squad in 1917.

As the range closed to within 30 yards, the French fired a deadly volley.

After securing the battery the French fired cannons and sent signal rockets skyward to signal their allies.

The Germans charged the Frenchmen climbing over the walls but the French fired a volley, driving them back.

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French fire crews put the fire out and no-one was hurt.

On August 24 Benbow's right leg was shattered by French fire.

And although Eurotunnel officials privately put much of the blame on the slow response of the French fire brigade, its own people had not anticipated many of the deficiencies in the fire brigade's response.