The siege cannon being too heavy to move quickly, the French burned the gun carriages and withdrew.

The batteries, which opened fire on 14 January, included twenty-three 24-lb and four 18-lb siege cannon.

Wellington positioned five field batteries and three 18-pdr siege cannon to provide fire support to the attacking infantry.

Only one of the field pieces was really suitable as a siege cannon.

They surrounded a great long-snouted machine, like a many-barrelled siege cannon.

He insisted that the siege cannon must be brought into action at once; the Belgians still showed no disposition to surrender.

The Mamluks had certainly acquired siege cannon by the 1360s, and possibly as early as 1320.

However, due lack of heavy siege cannons, the Norwegian forces were intact.

The Brigade do not field infantry, but only cavalry and a few brass or bronze cast siege cannon.

Within six days, the siege cannons battered a breach in the wall.