Russian artillery officer Ilya Radozhitsky (the 3rd Light Artillery Company, the 11th Artillery Brigade attached to the 11th Infantry Division) on the battle of Ostrovno (1812):
"...гранаты разрывались на воздухе с адским визгом."

My translation:
"... [French] shells exploded in the air with hellish screech."

Radozhitsky, I.T., Pokhodnye Zapiski Artillerista. (Campaign Memoirs of an Artilleryman.) Moscow, 1835, vol.1, part 1, p. 79.