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- From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
- Subject: Re: Singin' Those Apocalypse Blues
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.084629.3969@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
- References: <1992Dec23.073153.15801@u.washington.edu>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 08:46:29 GMT
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- mimir@hardy.u.washington.edu (Al Billings) writes:
- : In article <1992Dec23.005658.23227@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
- : >
- : >He never said anything about medieval cannons. Muzzle loaders were used in
- : >the Civil War - possibly to some extent in the First World War.
- :
- : *Muzzle* loading cannons were first used in the Civil War? Don't you mean
- : breech, perhaps? All the cannons I've ever seen (from ships and castles)
- : are loading from the front, open end (aka the muzzle).
- :
- : Either I've really missed something or...
-
- You certainly did. The only place I used the word "first" was to describe
- one (of two) so called World Wars.
-
- I was commenting on how late muzzle loading cannon were used, not how early.
-
- Bill
-