What is "cannonades"

Usage examples of "cannonades".

Still, even with the window closed to fend off the winter chill, the cannonades to the south were quite audible.

During the twelve-hour en­gagement, the fort withstood repeated cannonades and in fact grew stronger with each barrage as the soft and spongy palmetto logs ab­sorbed the British shot, which became embedded in its walls.

For after the close and exchange of broadside cannonades, to order grappling, I shall, and then we all must board and fight or die as God wills.

But he had long suspected, from the sound of the cannonades, that it was on the east that the Malwa had brought their greatest strength to bear.