bombards

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Bombards and cannon allowed armies to breach stone walls, however; even a modest opening gave enemy attackers the opportunity to enter the city and do battle with the forces within.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Strategies of memorialization include street-naming, as with Bombards Street, 17 January 1966 Street, and 17 January 1966 Crossing, where I lived over the winter of 2011-12.

From Time • Jan. 16, 2015

News of a serious character reaches us from The Toronto Daily Mail, which announces in its index of contents:— "Austrian Fleet Bombards Montenegro's Only Teapot."

From Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 7, 1914 by Various

Bombards were fired from the bridge, and the church bells rang loud enough to crack the steeple, and bring it down about the ears of the deafened lieges.

From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by Ainsworth, William Harrison