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<p>[QUOTE="GaleriaGila, post: 135451, member: 993"]Just surfing around...</p><p>1808 carronade... the date caught my eye.</p><p>This article says the French stole the "smaller cannons" idea from the British in the late 1700s. Astounding to imagine men battling each other at close range with these things... at SEA!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]35259[/ATTACH]</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carronade" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carronade" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carronade</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GaleriaGila, post: 135451, member: 993"]Just surfing around... 1808 carronade... the date caught my eye. This article says the French stole the "smaller cannons" idea from the British in the late 1700s. Astounding to imagine men battling each other at close range with these things... at SEA! [ATTACH=full]35259[/ATTACH] [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carronade[/URL][/QUOTE]
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