coehorns

The small mortars called coehorns (fig. 39) were invented by the famed

Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America Albert Manucy

Everything now looked as bad as could be, with the drifting of the smoke, and the flare of fire, and the pelting of bullets, and of grapnel from coehorns, and the screams of Frenchmen exulting vastly, with scarcely any Englishmen to stop them.

Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

The marines and seamen were sent aloft with a small arsenal, armed with swivel guns, blunderbusses, and coehorns, a kind of small mortar to lob bombs, as well as baskets of grenades which could be tossed down to the deck below.

John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003

The marines and seamen were sent aloft with a small arsenal, armed with swivel guns, blunderbusses, and coehorns, a kind of small mortar to lob bombs, as well as baskets of grenades which could be tossed down to the deck below.

John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003

General Oglethorpe having found that he could not stop the progress of the enemy up the river, and judging his situation at Fort Simons too dangerous, nailed up the guns, burst the bombs and coehorns, destroyed the stores, and retreated to his head quarters at Frederica.

An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2 Alexander Hewatt

Oglethorpe used 20 coehorns in his 1740 bombardment of St. Augustine.

Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America Albert Manucy

The most interesting of our guns were the two coehorns of Major John

History of Kershaw's Brigade D. Augustus Dickert

The clank of the artillery's ceaseless slow move, the loud roar of cannon, the scream of the coehorns from the barges, and the sudden explosion of the shells, made such a diabolical noise that many men became temporarily deaf.

My beloved South, Mrs. T. P. O 1914

Vicksburg the town suffered horribly, too, with gunboats at her side, their guns pointing towards her very heart, the coehorns in the barges screaming until her brain was paralised, shells bursting everywhere, making holes in the sides of houses, burning others to the ground.

My beloved South, Mrs. T. P. O 1914

Like clockwork from the Mississippi's banks beyond came the boom and shriek of the coehorns on the barges.

The Crisis — Complete Winston Churchill 1909