Crossword-Solution: EIGHTEENS 9 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

The whole number of cannon mounted on the fortress was thirty-one, of these, nine were French twenty-sixes; six English eighteens; nine twelve and seven nine pounders.* * Weems, in his Life of Marion, represents the cannon as made up principally of TWENTY-FOUR and THIRTY-SIX pounders; but the official accounts are as I have given them.

Six long twenty-fours of the new make, here in front, and two eighteens upon either flank, and I should like to see the whole of the Boulogne flotilla try to take yonder shore by daylight.

Characteristically enough, James, though he carefully reckons in the long bow-chasers in the bridle-ports of the _Argus_ and _Enterprise_, yet refuses to count the two long eighteens mounted through the bridle-ports on the _Guerrière's_ main-deck.

The Zanthe, for that was the name inscribed in gilt letters on her stern and sideboards, might have been a dangerous customer in a brush, for her armament consisted of ten brass eighteens, and her crew of sixty picked seamen--an abundance of men to work the brig, and serve her batteries with satisfaction and credit.

Born at a small holding called Draintewion, perched on the hillside overlooking the Severn Vale near Llandinam, the eldest of a family of nine children, on December 18, 1818,--"three eighteens," as he used in later life jocularly to remark--his boyhood was spent on the little plot of land tilling its rich soil, or helping his father, in the work of sawing timber into planks, a commodity for which public demand was then rapidly increasing.