The town was being bombarded by a hundred and thirty guns which Napoleon had ordered up after four o'clock.
Deidre struggled to take in everything around her, bombarded by the noise, smells and activity.
This dual government was a constant cause of friction between the Servians and the Turks, and on the occasion of one conflict between the two parties the Turkish commander of the fortress bombarded the Servian part of the town (June 1862).
