 | William James - 1837 - 632 str.
...afternoon, in the use of the broadsword, pike, musket, &c. Twice a week the crew fired at targets, both with great guns and musketry ; and Captain Broke, as an...every man that put a shot through the bull's eye. As the Shannon was always clear for action, and had on deck a sufficient quantity of ammunition for... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1891 - 1050 str.
...broadsword, pike, musket, etc. Twice a week the crew fired at targets, both with the great gurisand musketry, and Captain Broke, as an additional stimulus...of tobacco to every man that put a shot through the bull's-eye. Captain Brenton in his " Naval History of Great Britain " says : " The British navy, depressed... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1882 - 528 str.
...in the use of the broadsword, pike, musket, etc. Twice a week the crew fired at targets, both with great guns and musketry; and Captain Broke, as an...every man that put a shot through the bull's eye." He would frequently have a cask thrown overboard and suddenly order some one gun to be manned to sink... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1882 - 360 str.
...the 15 use of the broadsword, pike, musket, etc. Twice a week the crew fired at targets, both with great guns and musketry; and Captain Broke, as an...every man that put a shot through the bull's eye." He would frequently have a cask thrown overboard and suddenly order some one gun to be manned to sink... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1882 - 352 str.
...in the use of the broadsword, pike, musket, etc. Twice a week the crew fired at targets, both with great guns and musketry; and Captain Broke, as an...every man that put a shot through the bull's eye." He would frequently have a cask thrown overboard and suddenly order some one gun to be manned to sink... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1882 - 354 str.
...in the use of the broadsword, pike, musket, etc. Twice a week the crew fired at targets, both with great guns and musketry; and Captain Broke, as an...every man that put a shot through the bull's eye." He would frequently have a cask thrown overboard and suddenly order some one gun to be manned to sink... | |
 | Willis John Abbot - 1887 - 436 str.
...musket, pike, etc. Twice a week the crew fired at targets, both with great guns and musketry ; and Capt. Broke, as an additional stimulus beyond the emulation...of tobacco to every man that put a shot through the bull's-eye." Such was the vessel that in June appeared alone off the entrance to Boston Harbor, and... | |
 | Willis John Abbot - 1890 - 490 str.
...musket, pike, etc. Twice a week the crew fired at targets, both with great guns and musketry ; and Capt. Broke, as an additional stimulus beyond the emulation...of tobacco to every man that put a shot through the bull's-eye." Such was the vessel that in June appeared alone off the entrance to Boston Harbor, and... | |
 | Edgar Stanton Maclay - 1893 - 662 str.
...five years. "The crew of the Shannon had been five years together, commanded by the same captain."1 Thus it was that Captain Broke was thoroughly acquainted...port watch, the even-numbered guns from the starboard wateh ; the idea was that the watch below should not be disturbed, and that those men who fought together... | |
 | United States Naval Institute - 1898 - 1114 str.
...weather, the men were exercised at training the guns. Twice a week the men fired at targets, both with great guns and musketry, and Captain Broke,, as an...every man that put a shot through the bull's. eye." It would be a grave error to suppose that seamanship played little or no part in these engagements.... | |
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... every day, for about an hour and a half in the forenoon, when not prevented by chase or the state of the weather, the men were exercised at training the guns, and for the same time in the afternoon in the use of the broadsword, pike, musket, etc. 
