Word: musketeers
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...nuns to carry the scaling ladders; it tickled him to see the Spaniards forced to shoot down their sacred compatriots. At the fight at Matasnillos the Spaniards stampeded 1,500 bulls against the buccaneers: Morgan's men indulged in no matadorean antics, routed the bulls with a musket volley. Morgan's only serious repulse, says Biographer Roberts, was after the taking of Panama, when one of the beauteous captives caught his weather eye. He laid siege to her virtue by attrition and guile, but did not carry her, buccaneer-like, by storm. When she held out longer than...
...loyal and we pray the Government to show pity on us poor people. We pray that the Government will show its pleasure by permitting us to enlist again in the army and the police." Lastly the old chief made traditional "presents of fidelity" to Lord Willingdon-a long musket (its butt inlaid with gold), a set of carved daggers, some mountain goats and some fat-tailed sheep...
...around the high walls of the Bastille and the Revolution had begun. The Paris mob broke up running, shouting, shrieking, calling, hurling, swearing, beating, advancing, swarming; but always moving, always attacking, always increasing. They stormed the deep ditch, the double draw bridge, the eight great towers amid cannon, musket fire and smoke. And in the crowd stood Defarge of the wine shop grown hot with the work of four fierce hours. He called to his men, he shouted at his wife, he bellowed at the sky until at last in a great surge the crowd rose higher and higher until...
Remington Arms Co., Inc., older than Winchester by nearly half a century, always its peer. The first Remington rifle was made by Eliphalet Remington in 1816. He died in 1861, weakened by the strain of upping production for the Civil War (then famed gun: the Harper's Ferry musket). His three sons Philo, Samuel and Eliphalet Jr., carried on, but 23 years after the Civil War Marcellus Hartley bought control of the company, and his grandson Marcellus Hartley Dodge is now its chairman. Remington first developed the hammerless, solid-breech, repeating shotgun and the hammerless unloading shotgun, introduced the paper...
Shields' face whitened, a spurt of scarlet doused his shirtfront, he tumbled to the ground. The onlookers were men of stone. Suddenly they all laughed loudly. Chagrined and crestfallen. Shields got to his feet. The laughter was hectic and cruel. Abraham Lincoln had loaded his musket with squashy, scarlet-juiced pokeberries...