Significats de case shot en anglès

The projectiles are of three kinds-ordinaryshells, shrapnel shells, and case shot.

The guns used round shot, grape, and case shot; mortars and howitzers fired bombs and carcasses.

He was struck from his horse by a piece of case shot, but his pelisse saved him.

A moment later, a "spherical- case shot" followed the shell.

Sagschuetz won, the king followed the advancing line, and the air was alive with bullets and case shot.

I should then be able to land the gun, and take them unexpectedly on the flank with case shot.

The guns fired case shot, with terrible effect, and when morning dawned the position was still held by the Imperial Forces.

The guns fired case shot at twenty yards' range at these fierce pioneers, smashing the walls to pieces and killing many.

Originally dubbed "spherical case shot," the weapon came to be called the Shrapnel shell after its 1803 adoption by the British army.

They plundered it-thelodges were full of coveted buffalo robes-andthen burned it down, while the deadly case shot sung through the twilight air.

Frederick himself had been struck from his horse by a piece of case shot, fortunately almost spent, and which failed to penetrate his thick pelisse.

However, if in individual cases shots were fired at the German soldiers, this may always be condoned in a country suffering invasion.

"Those two advanced pieces are sending a round or two of case shot into the bushes, I suppose," Lindsay said drowsily.