0 a period of continuous heavy firing of large guns, especially as part of an attack
Both frigates immediately commenced a furious cannonade, which they maintained without intermission for three quarters of an hour, running before the wind under top-gallant-sails, and very near each other.
Commodore David D. Porter, with a formidable fleet, bombarded the stronghold from the river, while Grant's kept up a cannonade day and night from the land side.
Some of the houses seemed to have been ruined by a cannonade.
Still the fort held out against the cannonade of the French.
