twenty-sixes

Updated: June 28, 2025

For there were already several twenty-sixes in this country, and there was no fun in possessing a book that two or three other people could boast of having.

Edward Eggleston - The Faith Doctor: A Story of New York

The force under his command was four hundred and thirty-five men, rank and file, comprising four hundred and thirteen of the Second Regiment of Infantry, and twenty-two of the Fourth Regiment of Artillery. The whole number of cannon mounted on the fortress was thirty-one, of these, nine were French twenty-sixes; six English eighteens; nine twelve and seven nine pounders.*

William Gilmore Simms - The Life of Francis Marion