Wooden Canon - Ethnographic Arms & Armour

20th November 2008, 07:45 PM

katana

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Ed

Wow. Talk about a rarity.

Amazing that it survived.

Hi,
Perhaps this was a fake cannon ...to fool the enemy into believing you had more armaments . I believe that this tactic was used during the American Civil War and were call Quaker guns.

Rgards David

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