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Old 15th June 2009, 04:59 PM   #5
fernando
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Originally Posted by celtan
Hi Nando,

I don't see why you inherently preclude its use as a military weapon...
No, i don't ; discoverers and military, were a symbiosis... right?
It is to deprehend that, signaling with actual cannons was an inadequate procedure; soon the need for something more practical gave place to these portable noise makers.


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...Soldiers sometimes even made diagonal holes in the ground, filled them with BP and a stone, or other projectile, and fired them in large numbers in the general direction of the enemy...
Fantastic; any method is good for making war .

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