Significados de fire the town em inglês

She had placed rockets in readiness to fire the town on the instant of a volley of musketry being heard.

One night a report prevailed in Dumbarton, that Rob Roy intended to surprise the militia and to fire the town.

With the deserters were mingled a good many of the troops sent in by Bandoola, himself, with instructions to fire the town.

They would burn the gate, they cried; they would fire the town, but they would follow the Maid and the guidance of the saints.

For his final argument he took the Governor to the doorway, and showed him two hundred soldiers with lighted torches ready to fire the town.

They say down there that I have fired the town, but I have not.

The visitors to the château and environs afterward joined their comrades in firing the town.

With hardly a shot fired the town was occupied.

But I think that most of our chaps had better be told off for firing the town.

The Admiral, however, confined his chastisement to the latter, which he thoroughly performed, and fired the town in several places.

In 1049 Earl Godwin, and another son, Harold, made a second foray, carried off more ships, and fired the town.

Between nightfall and dawn the Spaniards had taken the alarm and fled from the place, firing the town as they left.

I sailed in the evening after saluting the Pacha with twenty guns, and saw them fire the Town, the Plunder being finish'd.

It was this that fired the town, and that began the fright in Mansoul; for Mansoul in former times did use to count that Mr.