Meanings of furious cannonade in English

The rest of the regiment was assailed by Reille's furious cannonade, and suffered severely.

At Ciezkovice the Germans pushed bridges across the Biala under cover of a furious cannonade.

The town knew nothing of what was being done under cover of that furious cannonade.

A little after six o'clock the next morning, the enemy suddenly opened a furious cannonade.

A furious cannonade opens this new attack, causing "frightful havoc" among the Allies.

The town answered, and a furious cannonade roared and blazed all down both lines till daybreak.

The battle of Dresden was, along the centre of the line, little else than a furious cannonade.

At three in the afternoon, after a furious cannonade, the fire of the enemy's battery suddenly ceased.

The flotilla were to open a furious cannonade upon their works, on both sides of the river.

As the early twilight began to open out along the entire front the artillery began a furious cannonade.

Then came a furious cannonade, and the continuous roar of musketry that spoke of a battle in earnest.

Ney, in a furious cannonade, begins the attack, in which the Allies are overwhelmed and their ammunition is exhausted.

The days went by, and no help came, while Santa Anna got ready his lines, and began a furious cannonade.

She went down swiftly with the current, passing the Vicksburg batteries just before daylight, and drawing from them a furious cannonade.

General Washington himself put the match to the first gun, and a furious cannonade immediately followed, which was a serious salutation to Cornwallis.

At two o'clock they were awakened by a sound which could not be mistaken,-thethunderous booming of a furious cannonade from Queenston Heights.