The man who opened the march, Captain de Bohorquez, was wounded by a musket shot, but was able to continue commanding his soldiers.
32.
Napoleonic French cuirasses were originally intended to be proof against three musket shots at close range; however, this was never achieved in practice.
33.
Stuyvesant at first ordered all buildings within cannon shot of the fort to be destroyed, then lowered that circumference to that of musket shot.
34.
Commander Manners was mortally wounded but continued to urge on his crew until killed by a musket shot from " Wasp " s rigging.
35.
The only safe way to move through the forest was to cut down the trees for a musket shot on both sides of the road.
36.
The result was that the army was " purged " of 80 officers and 3000 soldiers as it lay within musket shot of the enemy.
37.
Commander Simon-Pierre Denys de Bonaventure, captain of the French ship " Profond " masked her warlike character, keeping her ports closed until within musket shot.
38.
Up to this point the British column had not fired a single musket shot, but now the allied infantry poured a devastating discharge into the French.
39.
Helsby then heard two musket shots from the house of Antonio Wagner : Wagner and Dickson had been killed, witnessed by Joseph Douglas and Daniel McKay.
40.
On both sides of the road the rebels had cut down trees to create a clear field of fire about the length of a musket shot.
