This flotilla consisted of fifty open boats; most of them armed with a Carronade in the bow, and well manned with volunteers from the different ships of war.
"The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815"
G. R. Gleig
To dislodge them was the work of a moment a boat, with a Carronade in her bow, got upon their flank, gave them a single discharge of grape, whilst the advanced guard extended its ranks, and approached at double-quick time.
"The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815"
G. R. Gleig
About thirty men of the 14th dragoons having crowded into an unarmed barge, were proceeding slowly down the lake, when a boat mounting a Carronade in its bow suddenly darted from a creek and made towards them.
"The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815"
G. R. Gleig