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Heavy fire

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(Mil.) a continuous or destructive cannonading, or discharge of small arms.

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But this adjutant returned half an hour later with the news that the commander of the dragoons had already retreated beyond the dip in the ground, as a heavy fire had been opened on him and he was losing men uselessly, and so had hastened to throw some sharpshooters into the wood.
They immediately grappled us; but, although surrounded by hundreds of savages, we extricated ourselves from them, and escaped all safe into the garrison, except one that was wounded, through a heavy fire from their army.
It was a heavy fire which overwhelmed these wretches with a thousand hailstones.
 
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