The meadow rang with musket fire and the re-enactors were bleeding up a storm.
"Retreat!" cried Durutte, his voice straining above the crackling musket fire and the deadly whine of grapeshot.
Being in the lead, the Benton immediately began taking musket fire and then increasingly rapid artillery fire.
The blood flows freely from the beginning: a butchered deer, a stabbing, torture, musket fire aplenty and that scalping.
__ "Retreat!" cried Durutte, his voice straining above the crackling musket fire and the deadly whine of grapeshot.
He doesn't even have that penetrating delivery that upperclass English people evolved to make themselves heard over musket fire and the screams of dying foreigners.
Accompanied by the sounds of musket fire, they will commemorate the capture of the British fort there on the night of July 15-16 , 1779
(Nelson was blind in one eye, and his right arm had to be amputated after it was hit by musket fire in battle at Tenerife in 1797).
Through his inability to think beyond his own ego, he had led his men into an impossible situation, and in the scathing rebel musket fire that followed, Baker discovered, all too briefly, the real meaning of "bold, forward, determined war".
The powder, ignited by a simple fuze, opened the shell over concentrations of enemy troops, and the balls, with velocity imparted by the flying shell, had the effect of musket fire delivered at long range.
It has been the scene of siege and rebellion, but many local people associate it not with the sound of cannon and musket fire, but rather the dentist's drill.
