A number of the men who were attracted by the captured cannon began firing them with great jubilation down the river at steamboats which they saw there, and Grant tried to have them, since they would fire guns, turn them upon the steamers which were coming across from Columbus loaded with troops.
"The Struggle for Missouri"
John McElroy
The great jubilation during the latter half of the nineteenth century-from 1851 onwards-over world-wide trade and Industrial Exhibitions, as the heralds of the world's peace and amity-a jubilation voiced in Tennyson's earlier Locksley Hall-was to a certain extent justified.
"The Healing of Nations and the Hidden Sources of Their Strife"
Edward Carpenter
The jubilation was natural.
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose