[grobdriver]

Try 1600's - grape shot has cleared many a galleon's decks.

[Servant of the 9]

Try 1600's - grape shot has cleared many a galleon's decks.

Grape shot is a dozen or so iron balls an inch to 2 inches in diameter and fastened together in netting for loading.
It is a different round from cannister, which is a matal cylinder filled with musket balls.

Grape is for ships rigging or cavalry, cannister is for infantry.

So9

[atomic_dog]

True but grape shot is not canister and grape shot was rarely used on land battles of the Civil War. Grape shot was primarily used by naval gun crews. They behave differently and most of the canister shot used in the Civil War was mistakenly called grapeshot.

Grape shot

Canister