It soon became apparent that the enemy did not intend an immediate assault, for, with the battery of six pieces, they began a fearful cannonade.

Still the guns of the rebels kept up a heavy cannonade upon the residency, and volleys of musketry continued to pour upon the besieged from the loopholes of the besiegers.

Bacon now opened a cannonade in earnest on the town.

Yesterday we heard no cannonade, but this afternoon it has been unceasing and still continues.

The British commenced a cannonade, and Hull was greatly distressed at the number of women and children in the fort, exposed to the fire of the enemy.

The French continued their cannonade, and the breach appeared almost practicable, when suddenly they were astounded by a terrific explosion, which shook the whole ground as with an earthquake.

Suddenly there was a roar that dwarfed the cannonade and all along the barrier fountains of fire rose skyward, hurling a rain of fragments upon what was left of the blasting party.

At ten o'clock the French again exploded some mines, and for two hours renewed their cannonade as hotly as ever.

On the 13th of September, at 9 A. M., the Spaniards opened fire: all the artillery in the fort replied at once; the surrounding mountains repeated the cannonade; the whole army covered the shore awaiting with anxiety the result of the enterprise.

Not for a regiment's parade, Nor evil laws or rulers made, Blue Walden rolls its cannonade,

After suffering a cannonade, the commandant proposed to evacuate Wexford on terms which "manifested the impudency of the men."

The western sky was all a deep saffron pinkthe color of a salmon's bellyand we could hear the constant blaspheming of the big siege guns, taking up the evening cannonade along the center.

She sighed; later, in silence, she repeated some Credos and Hail Marys, her eyes fixed on space, the heavy cannonade dinning in her ears.

Blaze went our cannonades and long gun in succession, and down came the fore-topsail; the head of the topmast had been shot away.