Sentence examples for small cannon from inspiring English sources

The race traditionally begins with an explosion from a small cannon.

At one point guns were drawn, arrows aimed, and the small cannon mounted to the corps' keelboat ready to fire.

They were apparently unable to ignite a small cannon because of rain, but probably mustered enough firepower from muskets to frighten the Indians, the historians suggested.

He once rocked his neighborhood by firing a small cannon in the middle of his street; in another experiment, he launched a hydrogen balloon that was found by a farmer's daughter 100 miles away.

They swing from ropes, fire a small cannon and belt out tunes from a stage set duplicate of a wooden pirate ship with Mr. Davis standing on the bow like Washington crossing the Delaware.

Photo: A 100-year tradition of firing a small cannon, demonstrated by Mike Bunyan of the Harlem Yacht Club, is central to a dispute between the club and the city.

To test their helmets, companies like Rawlings shoot baseballs out of small cannons using compressed air.

Two steamers were commandeered to take up pursuit and quickly armed with a couple of small cannons and soldiers from a nearby fort.

Beginning in 1807, lifeboat houses, essentially beachside shacks, were built and equipped with boats, life rafts and small cannons that the volunteer surfmen would use to fire ropes to shipwreck survivors.

An 1848 inventory lists 6 large cannons, 21 small cannons, 6 breech-loaders, and 8 which did not work.

On the foggy morning of October 28, Mexican General Domingo Ugartechea led a force of 300 infantry and cavalry soldiers and two small cannons against the Texian forces.