Grapeshot sentence example
grapeshot
- The effect of artillery cannot be increased by putting squibs into cannon already loaded with grapeshot.
- Will they get there and fire the bridge or will the French get within grapeshot range and wipe them out?
- The French had time to fire three rounds of grapeshot before the hussars got back to their horses.
- Twice they noticed the French appearing below them, and then they fired grapeshot at them.
- General Campan's division did not seize the first fortification but was driven back, for on emerging from the wood it had to reform under grapeshot, of which Napoleon was unaware.Advertisement