The man died of a heart attack and Rosalie was killed by a shell fragment.
People didn't just fall over and look like they'd gone to sleep after being hit with a bullet or a shell fragment.
The two shell fragments had gone into the top of his leg and "missed everything important."
The mother was struck by a shell fragment and killed.
By the way, the doctor tells me the cut on your hand was from a shell fragment.
Poor man, he was soon dying from a shell fragment.
On July 19, 1759 he was killed by being struck in the head with a shell fragment.
Nathan was struck in the head with a shell fragment.
He was hit in his right leg by a shell fragment, and would be out of action for months.
Smith was wounded by shell fragments in an attack two days later.