#grapeshot

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Grapeshot

Mages often seek to emulate the powerful relics lost to time and apocalypse.

Artist: Clint Cearley TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

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Grapeshot by Irvin Rodriguez

[lesmisscraper]

Why did the National Guards used Grapeshot to the Barricade?

I really don't understand why the National Guards used the wrong purposed shots to the barricade. First, they fired just roundshot, which only got stucked from the structure of the barricade in 5.1.7.

Normal roundshots are like modern APC shells or specificily APFSDS shells, which only penetrate the target only with physical so it's no use in soft targets like barricade. So they changed the projectiles, but this time, it's grapeshot.

It's buckshots for cannons and its main targets are infantries, like modern APERS shells. In <Napoleon 2023> they even showed how to use.

Still though, it's for human or horses at that time, not on the structure. If the National Guards tried to break the barricade away, they should have used Shrapnels or Explosive shells instead.

Or, they just wanted to kill the insurgents first and take down the barricade second?

[ltwilliammowett]

Canister shots from the Mary Rose

These wooden containers, found packed with flint, are canister shot, which would be loaded into the ships guns and fired, fragmenting and sending sharp shrapnel towards the enemy, destroying rigging and seriously injuring personnel.

These represent the three types of canister shot recovered from the Mary Rose and were made before 1545:

Cylindrical lantern shot: Manufactured in a similar fashion to lanterns, panels mounted to discs at either end.

Cylindrical canister: a single piece of wood cut in half lengthways and hollowed out to provide a central container, led together with string.

Conical lantern shot: Tapering staves are bound together to form a cone. A separate top is pegged to the ends of the staves.

In the course of the 18th century, these shots developed into the canister shots and the grapeshots

Artillery shot-canister for a 12-pounder cannon from the US Civil War era

Canister shots now have a metal canister and are filled with round lead or iron balls that are packed with sawdust to give the mass more strength and cohesion and to prevent the balls from crowding each other when fired.

Stool of Grapeshot, 1800-24

A grapeshot is a type of ammunition that consists of a collection of smaller-caliber round shots packed tightly in a canvas bag and separated from the gunpowder charge by a metal wadding, rather than being a single solid projectile. When assembled, the shot resembled a cluster of grapes, hence the name.

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Russian war movies are great sometimes.

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Mages often seek to emulate the powerful relics lost to time and apocalypse.

-Grapeshot

[shipwreckedwithcaptainmarrow]

On the 10th of February, 1722, Welsh pirate Captain Bartholomew Roberts was killed in battle at age 39 by the British Royal Navy near Cape Lopez. Previously on the 5th, his ships, Royal Fortune, Ranger, and Little Ranger were currently undergoing careening when Captain Chaloner Ogle of the HMS Swallow happened across them. The Swallow pretended to be a merchant vessel and enticed the not-yet careened Ranger to pursue. After opening fire unexpectedly, the Ranger was gunned into submission and forced to surrender, with the rest of the crew being captured. 

On the 10th, the Swallow returned to Cape Lopez after dropping off the prisoners, surprisingly to find the Royal Fortune still there. Roberts had just captured the Neptune off the coast the previous day, and with most of the crew intoxicated from celebrating, they believed the HMS Swallow approaching to be the Ranger returning to regroup. Roberts was having breakfast with the defeated Captain Hill of the Neptune when he was informed it was not in fact the Ranger. According to ‘Charles Johnson’ he: “...made himself a gallant figure at the time of engagement, being dressed in a rich crimson damask waistcoat and breeches, a red feather in his hat, a gold chain round his neck with a diamond cross hanging to it, a sword in his hand, and two pairs of pistols slung over his shoulders.” The plan was to flee. But it would involve sailing past the Swallow, exposing themselves to a broadside, but if they could weather it, they would escape. The helmsman however failed to keep the Royal Fortune on course, allowing the Swallow to deliver a secondary broadside. Roberts was killed instantly by grapeshot striking him in the throat while standing on deck. The crew immediately fulfilled his wish to be buried at sea and weighed him down and cast him off the ship mid-battle with all his arms and ornaments (a request he’d repeated multiple times).The battle continued for two more hours without Roberts, until the Mainmast fell and they were forced to surrender. In total, Bartholomew Roberts and two crewmen had been killed. A total of 272 pirates were captured from the Royal Fortune, Little Ranger and those left on the beach. Of those captured, 54 were later condemned to death by hanging, the 65 African crewmembers were sold into slavery, 17 were taken to the Marshalsea Prison, and another 20 were put into indentured servitude by the Royal African Company. Others were taken to Cape Coast Castle or died on the voyage after capture.

The famous Captain Bartholomew Robert’s body was never found, as he wanted it, and some consider his defeat the “unofficial ending” of the Golden Age of Piracy. (pictured is a depiction of Roberts in the painting "Bartholomew 'Black Bart' Roberts" by Chris Collingwood, the shores of Cape Lopez [which is current day Gabon, Africa], and 18th century grapeshot on display within a museum)

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