Paixhans

Army Air Force B-29 in a successful bid to force the Japanese to surrender, not unlike like Perry's state-of-the-art Paixhans shells forced Japan to agree to trade in 1853.

Robert Weller: Madame Butterfly : A Journey 2010

Army Air Force B-29 in a successful bid to force the Japanese to surrender, not unlike like Perry's state-of-the-art Paixhans shells forced Japan to agree to trade in 1853.

Robert Weller: Madame Butterfly: A Journey 2010

Mississippi; _ten_ 8-inch Paixhans, as side-guns, ditto.

Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post Thomas Rainey

Some twelve years later, General Paixhans, who gave his name to the large guns of modern times, (although their prior invention was claimed by the late Colonel Bomford,) again commended plate-armor for ships to his Government; but his advice was not then adopted.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 Various

They build their log-station, pile up barrels of pork, beans, and molasses, like mortars and Paixhans in an arsenal, and are ready for a winter of stout toil and solid jollity.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 Various

Six other heavy pieces, Paixhans, I believe, faced the neck of the harbor.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 Various

Sebastopol may explain its wants to the relieving army beyond the line of the Chernaya, by the lispings of its short Paixhans and its long twenty-fours.

If, Yes and Perhaps Four Possibilities and Six Exaggerations with Some Bits of Fact Edward Everett Hale 1865

"Hurroo! look out for squalls," here cried the intrepid Hibernian; for at this moment one of Paixhans 'shells fell into the counterscarp of the demilune on which they were standing, and sent a ravelin and a couple of embrasures flying about their ears.

Burlesques William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

This fact induced Captain Mull to order his Paixhans to throw their shells beyond her, by way of a hint to anchor.

Jack Tier James Fenimore Cooper 1820

In this state of things one of the Paixhans belched forth its angry flame and sullen roar again.

Jack Tier James Fenimore Cooper 1820