cannonading

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"His footwork," wrote the Associated Press reporter Whitney Martin, "consists of moving forward in a direct line to a point where he is within cannonading range."

From The Guardian • Nov. 13, 2012

Abraham Lincoln stood at his bedroom window and listened to Civil War cannonading across the Potomac, but the Confederates never reached the White House.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the thick northern fog a terrific cannonading broke out, then the masses of steel moved away.

From Time Magazine Archive

One night a fortnight ago the worn men of Major General Alexander Rodintsev's 13th Guards Division crouched in their holes in the northwest district of Stalingrad and listened to sudden thunderous cannonading.

From Time Magazine Archive

During the cannonading, I took occasion to go back into the woods a short distance in order to get a view of what was going on.

From A Narrative of Service with the Third Wisconsin Infantry by Hinkley, Julian Wisner