Sentence examples for french guns from inspiring English sources

Contrary to all other accounts, Martin du Bellay, a French cavalry officer who was present at the battle, stated that the Mary Rose had been sunk by French guns.

By late afternoon of December 18 a battery of French guns, commanded by Bonaparte, was able to open fire on the British fleet.

French guns at Verdun fired over 10,000,000 rounds with the field artillery, over 1,000,000 medium-calibre rounds, and 600,000 large-calibre rounds.

The tribes traded freely, and soon many had acquired French guns, while others had traded for Spanish horses.

On 5 August, French guns began firing on the fort from 2000 yards, a spectacle the large Indian contingent relished.

Some of them did manage to get to the French guns and crossed the battery, with the Guard cavalry immediately countercharging and driving them off.

Stricter French gun laws have slashed legal sales -- to 100,000 now from 300,000 a decade ago, according to the national armorers' association, which represents owners of small shops and custom gunmakers and has shrunk to 600 members, from 1,200.

During this time, the French gun batteries fired, at times quite heavily, on the British positions.

"Did your French gun control stop a single fucking person from dying at the Bataclan?

At 04:00 on 25 August, the newly erected French gun battery opened fire on Sirius and Iphigenia, which returned fire as best they could.

Weapons arrived through long-established routes from Spanish Larache or else purchased directly from French gun runners or corrupt Spanish Army troops.