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Updated: June 18, 2025
The captures of the military and police were not confined alone to the conspirators, and in addition to them were captured immense military stores of all kinds, boxes of guns already shotted, cart loads of army pistols loaded and ready for the bloody work expected of them, holsters, pistol belts, cartridges by the cart load, and enough munitions of war to have started an arsenal of moderate size.
Men dropped right and left, sank in grey heaps or fell forward on their faces some were knocked backwards down the slope. Yet without a pause they climbed. Three hundred yards more and they would be on the guns. And then a sheet of blinding flame from every black-mouthed gun in line double shotted with grape and canister! The regiment was literally knocked to its knees.
At six o'clock on that morning we discovered upwards of twenty sail of war canoes, crowded with armed warriors, coming into the bay. What their intentions were we could not imagine; but for fear of the worst, the ships in the harbour shotted their guns, and when the canoes were abreast of us, we fired a blank one over their heads.
"I was beated to-day," said Diana; "it was an enemy did it, and I'm going to have her shotted." "Oh, I wouldn't do that!" said the woman. "You might be hanged up for that." "What's being hanged up?" asked Diana. "It's something very bad I need not tell you now; but there are laws in this country, and if you shoot your enemies you are hanged up for it.
The Victory, as she approached the Bucentaur, fired a 68-pounder carronade containing a round-shot and a keg with 500 musket-balls, from the larboard side of her forecastle, right into the cabin-windows of that ship; and as she forged slowly ahead, the whole of her 50 broadside guns, all doubly and some trebly shotted, so as completely to rake her, killing or wounding as many men as the Bucentaur had lost, and dismounting 20 of her guns.
Shandy is the first who fairly pointed out the incalculable influence of nomenclature upon the whole life who seems first to have recognised the one child, happy in an heroic appellation, soaring upwards on the wings of fortune, and the other, like the dead sailor in his shotted hammock, haled down by sheer weight of name into the abysses of social failure.
The result of the action was a well-grounded belief that in daylight there was very little chance of the Boers being able to carry the lines. As the date was that of the Prince of Wales's birthday, a salute of twenty-one shotted naval guns wound up a successful day.
One bad part of the business was, that the guns were all loaded and shotted, and as the fire got to them they went off, some of the shots reaching Stokes Bay, out there beyond Haslar, and others falling among the shipping. Two poor fellows aboard the Queen Charlotte were killed, and another wounded, though she and the other ships got under way to escape mischief.
"There goes a tray of blanks," said the Master. "Perhaps that will rout them out, eh? Once we can get them on the run " Leclair laughed scornfully. "Those dog-sons will not run from blanks, no, nor from shotted charges!" he declared. Ah, 'these dogs bare their teeth to fight more willingly than to eat. It will come to hot work soon, I think!"
However, the orders were sealed, and they directed that first the guns should be fired without shot; next, that they should be shotted, but not fired so as to injure the crews of our ally's ships; and, finally, that they should be used as hostilely and destructively as was necessary to accomplish the purpose of forcing Naples to let the Sicilian rebels alone.
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