Some of the guns were exploded and others dismounted by this terrible shower, but they did not yet give up.

As fast as they could load and fire the little band sent back their own fire at the black hulks that showed through the smoke.
"The fleet will win," Dick heard Colonel Winchester murmur.

"Look how magnificently it is handled, and it converges closer and closer.

A fortification located as this one is cannot stand forever a fire like that." But the fleet was not escaping unharmed.

A shell burst the boiler of the Essex, killing and wounding twenty-nine men.