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Definition of Coehorns
1. coehorn [n] - See also: coehorn
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coehorns
Literary usage of Coehorns
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography by Historical Society of Pennsylvania (1889)
"... contains the following account of an engagement between an American
privateer (brigantine), mounting fourteen guns—4- and 6-pounders—and six coehorns, ..."
2. A Naval History of the American Revolution by Gardner Weld Allen (1913)
"... carrying sixteen six-pounders, ten coehorns, and forty men, fell in with an
American brigantine mounting fourteen guns, sixes and fours, ..."
3. History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France: From the by William Francis Patrick Napier (1842)
"... and four coehorns on the east front. An eighteen-pounder was on the ...
and the coehorns did in fact reply to the enemy's fire. ..."
4. Francis Parkman's Works by Francis Parkman (1906)
"Meanwhile a battery, chiefly of coehorns, had been planted on a hillock four
hundred and forty yards from the West Gate, where it greatly annoyed the French ..."
5. A Half Century of Conflict: France and England in North America, Part Sixth by Francis Parkman (1907)
"Meanwhile a battery, chiefly of coehorns, had been planted on a hillock four
hundred and forty yards from the West Gate, where it greatly annoyed the French ..."
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