twenty-two-pound

Updated: May 28, 2025

There was a great dearth of cannon. The few that could be had were too light, the heaviest being of twenty-two-pound calibre. New York lent ten eighteen-pounders to the expedition. But the adventurers looked to the French for their chief supply.

Francis Parkman - A Half-Century of Conflict - Volume II

In another week they had dragged four twenty-two-pound cannon and ten coehorns gravely called "cowhorns" by the bucolic Pomeroy six or seven hundred yards farther, and planted them within easy range of the citadel. Two of the cannon burst, and were replaced by four more and a large mortar, which burst in its turn, and Shirley was begged to send another.

Francis Parkman - A Half-Century of Conflict - Volume II