Awesome video for Artillery guru's

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Little Powell
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Awesome video for Artillery guru's

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Here's a youtube vid of a Whitworth cannon blowing up cars. It's amazing how accurate they were.

Very cool!!

Blowing up cars with a Civil War Whitworth
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That was cool . How did they site them up? Pretty accurate firing.
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Now that's what I'm talkin' about!

On a stationary target, with a few rounds to adjust, Artillery will pretty much mash a regiment into pulp.
"I am afeard there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument?"
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