Posts by dave
1 post • joined Tuesday 13th May 2008 16:43 GMT
32 pounder?
http://www.nelsonsnavy.co.uk/broadside6.html.
I remember reading about artillery tests conducted at Madras in the early/mid 19th. Accuracy was crap. British ingenuity had solved the problem by the time of the Indian mutiny though:
"...convicted mutineers were lashed to the muzzles of cannon and had a roundshot fired through their body..."
http://usp.nus.edu.sg/victorian/history/empire/epic.html
