| Broke sat, dizzied and weak, on a carronade slide, and his head was bound up by William Mindham, who used his own neckerchief. |
| The captain stood on the carronade slide, from which he had addressed the men. |
| The men were armed, of course, and each boat had a carronade ready for action. |
| Also, the violent recoil by which a carronade is often thrown off the slide of its carriage. |
| The small powder charge of the carronade was only able to project a heavy cannonball over a relatively limited distance. |
| The officer in charge then fired a carronade to disperse them. |
