They'd fired their muskets and had no time to reload.
He would show them that they faced veterans who could fire their muskets faster than any other troops on earth.
Then more gunshots as men fired second muskets and pistols.
Participants fire artillery and muskets loaded only with gunpowder at each other.
Even as they fired muskets at his shadowy figure in the woods, the American soldiers admired him.
Over these the marines fired their muskets, and behind them the light quarter-deck guns were worked.
The "Asafotu" are companies of warriors who fire their muskets in celebration.
"They fired muskets at us; we hurled stones and spears."
The men still on their feet fired their muskets and re-loaded as they marched.
Surprise was quickly lost when American pickets detected them and fired muskets to alert the defenders.