The only chance for recovery would be in opening the abdomen, Evacuating the liquid, and stitching up the rent in the bladder, but at such a season, and with inflammation already started, there would be little to hope for.
"Special Report on Diseases of Cattle"
U.S. Department of Agriculture J.R. Mohler
Probably they were firing so as to use up their remaining shells before Evacuating.
"The Story of the "9th King's" in France"
Enos Herbert Glynne Roberts
Nor was it altogether unnecessary, several bodies of the enemy's horse occasionally showing themselves, and what appeared to be the rear-guard of a column of infantry Evacuating Marlborough, as our advance entered.
"The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815"
G. R. Gleig