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To: DieHard the Hunter
Imagine what this could do to advance infantry...


20 posted on 08/31/2009 12:32:33 PM PDT by raybbr (It's going to get a lot worse now that the anchor babies are voting!)
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To: raybbr
Upper left is a stack of cannon balls. Those would be fired one at a time.

Upper right is grapeshot ... the forerunner to canister, which was a more efficient way of packing the balls.

The bar and chain shot were used in age-of-sail naval warfare to destroy the opponent's rigging. Bring down his sails (and masts, if you're good) and the enemy is a sitting duck.

42 posted on 08/31/2009 1:49:50 PM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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