Sentence examples for two cannon from inspiring English sources

We came to a stop at two cannon replicas beside what had once been colonial lines.

In diplomatic parlance, there are supposed to be just two types of high-level dinners, which are really just two cannon blasts apart, and both feature elaborate meals.

LEGEND has it that Galileo dropped two cannon balls of different weights off the Leaning Tower of Pisa to see if they would hit the ground at the same time.

The English archers, from a defensive position between a stream and a trench, held the French off for about three hours and even got momentary possession of two cannon (supplied to the French king's army by the brothers Jean and Gaspard Bureau, pioneers in the field of ordnance); but the defense collapsed when the Constable de Richemont arrived with reinforcements for Clermont.

In Porthcawl two cannon were discovered by dog walkers on Pink Bay, and are believed to date back to 18th Century or the early 19th Century.

Between 21 and 27 soldiers, armed with two cannon, remained to defend the fort.

Better safe than sorry, advised HSBC's feng shui masters, who promptly saw to it that two cannon-shaped protrusions were installed on the roof, pointing directly back at the Bank of China.

In 1812, the army built a blockhouse on the biggest rock, and mounted two cannons there.

The Merrimac suffered considerable damage during the battle; its ram was broken off, its iron plates loosened and two cannons destroyed.

He acquired two cannons in the engagement.

After the war, General Sherman donated two cannons to the institution.