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Accordingly, early next day he fired off a culverin, and prepared to land with 100 men, “having light ordnance in his great boat, and in the other boats double bases in their noses.”

He has lowered the portcullis and pointed his culverins over the gate and will not yield it or listen to reason.

There were mounted on the ramparts six six-pounder and two four-pounder iron cannon, with two culverins.

The vessel had swung round a little, so that her stern-chaser, a culverin twelve feet long, pointed full at the fort.

I wrote concerning it, by the patache; and will only state here the number of pieces—namely, eleven of cast iron and one bronze culverin, these being large pieces.