So you, like Napoleon, can give 'em a whiff, if they keep coming at you. And a stand of quilted grape. And a solid shot. And a shell. And some canister, too. The canister and the "stand" of grape shot just arrived yesterday, from their former home in Maine. Ahhhhh. Be still, my Gunner's heart. For the curious - upper left, solid shot. Below that, a shrapnel round (true shrapnel, vice the fact we now call shrapnel what are more properly fragments). Take out the musket balls and sulfur matrix, put in gunpowder, you would have common shell. The big...
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Oct 06 2012, 08:26 AM
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Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah's Military Guys..