Being wounded was bad. No dustoff helicopters, no modern field hospitals, no anaesthesia, no antibiotics, no concept of hygiene made being wounded much worse.
There’s a story out there somewhere about a Civil War Cannoneer at Antietam, who, after his entire unit was killed by advancing confederate forces in a cornfield, fired a point blank (and I mean point blank) round of “double canister” (two rounds of grape shot) into the rebel forces. The guy basically wiped out anything that moved in that cornfield in one shot.
Happened at Gettysburg also. Near the copse of trees by the high water mark there was a Lieutenant Cushing in charge of a gun battery there and told the men if they run he'll shoot them himself. As he lay dying from multiple wounds he told them to load double canisters of shot and let them fly. Picketts charge didn't get much further. Cushing and First Sergeant Fuger received the Medal of Honor for their actions that day.
I’m still astounded that lines of soldiers would march across open fields into the direct path of such wicked killing tools flying through the air all around. Terrifying
Normally, the big guns would be firing at each other until one side runs out of ammo or is wrecked. Meanwhile the gunmen would be firing at each other, and the riders would fight each other
@@1414141xTo be fair to olden day royalty & nobility, alot of times they would be found either leading from the front or somehow being involved in the fighting, and in certain circumstances it would have been expected of them. Certainly this doesn't apply directly to Napoleon, as by his time warfare itself had evolved, although alot of his officers would've still experienced patronage being administered. For a fair number of the nobility hundreds of years ago, their actions on the battlefield could potentially determine the fate of their family name for generations to come - titles & land could easily either be won through bravery or lost through cowardice - being both royalty & nobility back then was definitely fraught with alot more danger & insecurity than today's Elites have to worry about.
It's probably a combination of black powder residue and soot. Those old cannons get extremely dirty, and the black powder does not always burn cleanly or completely, so you have to swab the barrels down between shots. Caked black gunk is a regular thing for reenactors.
During the American Civil War they shot at eachother using cannon firing 12 pound tin cans full of whatever metal scrap fit in the can. You do not want to think about what the battlefield looked like when the fight was over.
and to think all those dead men becuz one side thought the Bible allowed then to own people... guess Inna sense they walked so Hitler could run.. atleast there arnt monuments praising them wouldn't that be like an insult to iniury
@@WhatAboutTheBeefr. How the fuck wood gon burn away in an instant? I was confuzzled at the idea that wood has worked in ways I’d never imagined all these years.
Your right and your wrong . This guy is also right and wrong . The fire from the powder will burn thewood some it will burn some of the bag and the bag will rip apart by the time all of this leaves the cannon . But it wont burn all the wood or the cloth and the rope .
The only way it could burn off was if it was made of nitrocellulose.. but then it would burn off too fast and wouldn't do its job. The wood also isn't there to stop the balls from expanding and blocking the Barrel.. it's there because the gasses from the black powder would just go around the balls without it.
Napoleonic artillery was really something. I love that grapeshot, but the chain shot was really some scary stuff. It was mostly used on naval ships to take out enemy mast/sails but i sure as hell wouldn't want to get in between those two things.
I've never heard of that before, but I'm not surprised. That's a very ingenious way to use chains. It'd be a very effective weapon to bring down the mast of a ship or a person. There's likely other things we dont yet know of that were fired from cannons. You're limited only by your imagination.
Biggest take-away is that artillery as a weapon was devastating in evolving warfare, delivering various loads from (plain) shrapnel to phosphorus, gas and biological agents. American artillery systems in WW II were battlefield devastating and most feared by Axis armies, who suffered major casualties from it.
My 3X great grandfather was apart of the charge of the Scots Greys. He was with the 6th Inniskilling Irish Dragoons who were attached to the Scots Greys. He survived.
He was apart? "Apart" means separated by a distance, or in a different place or direction. It can also refer to something being distinct or different from something else. For example, "They live miles apart" or "Her opinion set her apart from the others."
The flame wouldn’t “burn away” the wood, the cordage and the canvas in the microsecond it takes to fire the cannon. It’d absolutely scorch the shit out of it, but it would more accurately be violently expelled from the muzzle, the force tearing everything apart. The singed bits would scatter for some yards in front of the gun while the shot of course flew furthest. But yeah, the miscellaneous stuff would be just like a modern shotgun’s wadding, that’s all.
Canister shot is what you’re looking for, grapeshot was used for navy commonly, although it wasn’t uncommon for armies to use it too. Grapeshot looked a lot like grapes, Canister shot had a shell cover it, so that’s why.
@@poopfacemctavish7080Have you tested this for yourself, or are you just guessing ? If you haven't actually recreated this for yourself, you have no idea whether of not the bag would've been burned away upon firing.
Little correction, the standoff was to create a seal between the shot and the gunpowder charge in order to block the barrel until enough back pressure built up to break the seal and propel the shot with enough velocity and distance to be effective. Without the standoff which is actually called the Wad, the gunpowder would ignite and create an almighty fireball out the front of the barrel, propelling the shot a mere few feet, possibly even leaving some shot in the barrel.
It is simply a piston. There is zero chance for such a relatively cold flame and time in tiny fraction of second to burn solid chunk of wood - even more without oxygen as volume of barrel contains very little of it. I guess the linen and cord were not burnt but rather worn down bu friction against barrel walls. Yet I imagine why attack by infantry on the battery was such a horror and quite probably no quarters were given if it was actually stormed with success.
PTSD is crackpot psychology meant to pry money out of the VA. I saw it coming when sailing back from the Persian Gulf in 1991. The Navy flew psycologists aboard our ship to talk about our feelings. Complete horseshit.
Yeah, because sitting entrenched getting pounded by Arty and dying to pure luck is so dignifying. Freddy was probably your average fucktard leader that never went to the front.
those men took no cover,they marched right up to each other. I would love to say I could do that but honestly I don't know if I could. But then again I'm an old man with not that much to lose really.
I've always said that if one really wants to see just how far the human race has advanced technologically in the last 200 years, one need only look at the advances in arms and armaments.
@@Lornsen420 A Commander is an Officer. Officer is not a rank in itself but a person in a position of authority (especially military). A Commander "commands" any armed forces unit and is therefore in a position of authority = Officer
Jesus man I just can't wrap my head around how nasty warfare was and still is. And back then if you didn't die instantly you'd be in for unimaginable suffering before death.
Today you also don't die instantly, not always at least. That is to my knowledge also preferred in modern warfare. Wounded soldiers bind more resources than dead soldiers.
@@TheGreatThicc I'm presuming you're joking but just in case you're not, do you not know anything about ww1 or ww2, or even Afghanistan, war has never been civilised
Reading your comment, I rewatched thinking they were grossly long or something. The guy's hands are normal, dude. Are you really that sun-deprived that dirty hands in a dirty situation is notable to you?
During waterloo, the french cavalry attack, Captain mercer of the horse artillery loaded his guns with double ball and double cannister to be fired when about to be overrun at one point. Apparently it worked.
You've clearly never met a Scouse or Scot. Or really any Brit. Only RP speakers sound authoritative and educated. And Cornish peninsula people were born to tell captivating and ancient stories of heroes and treasure
grapeshot, and the more modern canister rounds, are genuinely terrifying things. You're turning large-barrel weapons into essentially giant shotguns, with all the devastation that implies.
@@brbrdeng9122 A lot of wounds were treated by cleaning debris from the wound, pouring in overproof rum along with a bit of gunpowder, and setting fire to it. Disinfects and cauterises the wound. Then sew it up with sailmaker’s thread, put some tar on it, and a canvas dressing. Many survived, with interesting scars to impress the girls in Port au Prince.
For ships they would use cannon balls to against the hull, grapeshot against the crew and cain-shot which was two iron balls joined together with a chain. This last type of shot was particularly effective against rigging, boarding netting, and sails, since the balls and chain would whirl like bolas when fired.
“They’ve found grape shot on both sides… and they’ve found the mangled and perforated skeletons of the men who were on the receiving end of grape shot.”
Canister rounds were actually more effective because they used smaller balls (and, thus, more of them). Langrage was also used -- basically it was canister but with bits and bobs inside -- nails, iron scrap, etc. And Shrapnel was a canister round with an explosive charge that burst in a wider pattern.
Solid shot at long range on a money battlefield may not have been all that effective, but I shuffer to imagine what a few batteries of Canon loaded with grape shot could do at close range
From buckshot to this to chemical warfare and even nukes, one of the biggest motivations was to prevent the loss of life of your own people. The deadliest part is when your opponents are equally matched in technology.
It's not designed to cause suffering. it's designed to kill. Few weapons of war are designed with suffering in mind. In fact, there have been a few weapons that were outlawed from use in war BECAUSE they caused undue suffered and did not kill very efficiently.
I knew of these things from Assassin's Creed, where it's used in ship-based combat as a way to disable other ships. I never considered how they might be when used on people.
@@Aarlaeoss I honestly always just assumed it was meant to be tearing through the sails, which would impede their movement, but I don't know how ships work.
Canister is just that, CAN for musket shot or whatever inside a can. Grapeshot was really designed and meant for the naval demi-cannons (some as large as 32 pounders) Where canister was meant for the much smaller field artillery.
At Aspern Essling in 1809, the Old Guard was deployed against two batteries of Austrian 12-lbers, for an hour, in "single rank" at 100 yds, and forced the artillery to retire due to excessive casualties from their musketry. Of the 1200 casualties taken by the Guard, roughly 2/3 were back with their units in a few weeks. Baron Larrey, head of Napoleon's medical corps, was a magician.
The range of the target necessitates the type of ammnition. You could shread fomartions of cavlary or cause mass panic with this. The stretgh of a force was measured in the numbers of cannons , colums of men , and numbers of horses. Battles were often fought in or arrond small towns. and the treatment of civalains was brutall.
I'll be looking forward to Basil's Collision deck. I still play with his Bloomlordmon list (updated a bit) occasionally. I also think Collision is one of the coolest mechanics they've made, so I'm really excited to see what he's made with it. We seem to have similar taste and that makes me feel good.
The wood base was basically a sort of sabot that dropped away as the muzzle flash burned the bag rather than being burned up itself. The block allowed some cup pressure to build behind the cluster of shot.
My childhood lied to me. I've spent 25 years thinking they just dumped them in the cannon. My books only showed them together, did not mention cordage, bag, or wood piece.
So essentially a massive shot gun. Nasty.
You should see the canister rounds I've fired from an Abrams. 1,000 3/8 inch steel balls.
@countrykids6483 it's for birds, right?
@@nickt6980 they are officially listed as 3/8 inch bearings
@@countrykids6483 She must be impressed.
@@nickt6980big birds with sails instead of wings
It's awesome that he's survived all these years to tell the story today.
His secret is olive oil
😅😂😂😅
Thank you for that 😂
That’s not napoleon that is an actor.
@@aliray7833This isn’t Steam, you don’t have to feign redardation to get funny internet points™️.
Anyway, woosh.
Back in the day you can imagine how horrific most wounds were.
Being wounded was bad. No dustoff helicopters, no modern field hospitals, no anaesthesia, no antibiotics, no concept of hygiene made being wounded much worse.
I heard a story about a guy that chopped his brother in half in a freak machete fight accident one time...
Factual true history is nuts.
@@PanicRolling "freak machete fight accident" LMAO
There would be no wound if that hit you, just a corpse.
@@Vile_Entity_3545 Bro plenty of people survived, bit a lot of amputations because the limb was just wrecked.
"I own a 12 for home defense"
"12 gauge?"
"Nahh, 12 grape"
Gauge?
Nope, pounder!
@@LOTR22090ableyoooo
Jehovah Witnesses: Hmm, let's move onto the next house.
@@gordonilaoa1275haven’t seen those guys since I opened the door and said “Hello, Hail Satan.”
Just as the founding fathers intended
Well that'll ruin your day.
After being hit with that you're prolly not gonna have to about your day.
If you have one, abd that's a big if
Nah death is just the beginning clown boy
I reckon it’ll ruin your bones too…
@@Megadextrious Love your username!
There’s a story out there somewhere about a Civil War Cannoneer at Antietam, who, after his entire unit was killed by advancing confederate forces in a cornfield, fired a point blank (and I mean point blank) round of “double canister” (two rounds of grape shot) into the rebel forces. The guy basically wiped out anything that moved in that cornfield in one shot.
This made me remember
" *I CAST FIREBALL* "
memes
Christ alive that’s metal as hell (literally)
That's one of the stories that sound cool.
Canister was actually nastier. More smaller balls.
Happened at Gettysburg also. Near the copse of trees by the high water mark there was a Lieutenant Cushing in charge of a gun battery there and told the men if they run he'll shoot them himself. As he lay dying from multiple wounds he told them to load double canisters of shot and let them fly. Picketts charge didn't get much further. Cushing and First Sergeant Fuger received the Medal of Honor for their actions that day.
I’m still astounded that lines of soldiers would march across open fields into the direct path of such wicked killing tools flying through the air all around. Terrifying
Yes, all so the aristocracy and the King could continue to live in the lifestyle they were born too expect.
Exactly! The horror of marching towards that is nightmare inducing.
Normally, the big guns would be firing at each other until one side runs out of ammo or is wrecked. Meanwhile the gunmen would be firing at each other, and the riders would fight each other
nothing has changed, men still do this, even at this very moment
@@1414141xTo be fair to olden day royalty & nobility, alot of times they would be found either leading from the front or somehow being involved in the fighting, and in certain circumstances it would have been expected of them. Certainly this doesn't apply directly to Napoleon, as by his time warfare itself had evolved, although alot of his officers would've still experienced patronage being administered.
For a fair number of the nobility hundreds of years ago, their actions on the battlefield could potentially determine the fate of their family name for generations to come - titles & land could easily either be won through bravery or lost through cowardice - being both royalty & nobility back then was definitely fraught with alot more danger & insecurity than today's Elites have to worry about.
"To cannon, all men are equal." - Napoleon
Red coat? blue coat? They’re all just chunky salsa waiting to happen.
"... regardless of stature" he begrudgingly admitted 🤡
Shit lannes should have said that but he was busy getting killed by a cannon ball
@@thomasfoster7387
Yeah, hurry up, the crows have chicks to feed!
@@thomasfoster7387that's hilarious
I have major respect for the 95th Rifles. Feeding the enemy grapes? That's a good soldiering.
Can we just appreciate the authenticity of the role down to the soil-encrusted finger nails?
I was thinking the exact same thing! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
It's probably a combination of black powder residue and soot. Those old cannons get extremely dirty, and the black powder does not always burn cleanly or completely, so you have to swab the barrels down between shots. Caked black gunk is a regular thing for reenactors.
Kind of a dumb thing to think that was done intentionally
authenticity? He was here, fighting! (source: napoleon told me in a dream)
@@davidweyer79me too
During the American Civil War they shot at eachother using cannon firing 12 pound tin cans full of whatever metal scrap fit in the can. You do not want to think about what the battlefield looked like when the fight was over.
Like downtown NYC
Pure carnage.
OMG😢
Basically like a commercial kitchen after shift? Wasn't rare to stuff those cans with cutlery after all
and to think all those dead men becuz one side thought the Bible allowed then to own people... guess Inna sense they walked so Hitler could run.. atleast there arnt monuments praising them wouldn't that be like an insult to iniury
@@lenbones7940Those men died because one side decided to leave the Union, not because of slavery.
That ball going through you would be absolutely devastating. Christ, think of how many people have died this way
Potentially 12 at once
It doesn't burn it away, it shreds off.
Thank you. His explanation was hilarious.
@@WhatAboutTheBeefr. How the fuck wood gon burn away in an instant?
I was confuzzled at the idea that wood has worked in ways I’d never imagined all these years.
Your right and your wrong . This guy is also right and wrong . The fire from the powder will burn thewood some it will burn some of the bag and the bag will rip apart by the time all of this leaves the cannon . But it wont burn all the wood or the cloth and the rope .
The only way it could burn off was if it was made of nitrocellulose.. but then it would burn off too fast and wouldn't do its job. The wood also isn't there to stop the balls from expanding and blocking the Barrel.. it's there because the gasses from the black powder would just go around the balls without it.
So do the men😮
I love this guy's accent. I could listen to him talk about anything all day.
Forgot one thing: often, soldiers would put extra things in, for example: coins, musket balls, metal scraps and other things.
Napoleonic artillery was really something. I love that grapeshot, but the chain shot was really some scary stuff. It was mostly used on naval ships to take out enemy mast/sails but i sure as hell wouldn't want to get in between those two things.
I've never heard of that before, but I'm not surprised. That's a very ingenious way to use chains. It'd be a very effective weapon to bring down the mast of a ship or a person. There's likely other things we dont yet know of that were fired from cannons. You're limited only by your imagination.
Biggest take-away is that artillery as a weapon was devastating in evolving warfare, delivering various loads from (plain) shrapnel to phosphorus, gas and biological agents. American artillery systems in WW II were battlefield devastating and most feared by Axis armies, who suffered major casualties from it.
@@castleanthrax1833and historical fact.
@@fioredeutchmark
You're = you were.
@@castleanthrax1833myth busters tested chain shot in there pirate special check it out it made there pigs er sorry pirates into confetti.
My 3X great grandfather was apart of the charge of the Scots Greys. He was with the 6th Inniskilling Irish Dragoons who were attached to the Scots Greys. He survived.
I don't believe you
@@telstar4772 I have once written a similar message to my prospective employer. They have believed it.
He was apart? "Apart" means separated by a distance, or in a different place or direction. It can also refer to something being distinct or different from something else. For example, "They live miles apart" or "Her opinion set her apart from the others."
@@ruzziasht349dude....maybe he meant apart bc his gramps was hit by grapeshot. He ended the comment with "He survived"...😮
@@telstar4772and I believe I had fun with your mother last might.
i love how he holds it like a baby
That's respect
@@tbleeker7987 No. It's lead, and heavy.
@@TedBronson1918 Yeah he's not even supporting the head
Wow I had no idea they were that big! I thought they were the same size as a musket ball
I thought they be the size of a grape
The flame wouldn’t “burn away” the wood, the cordage and the canvas in the microsecond it takes to fire the cannon. It’d absolutely scorch the shit out of it, but it would more accurately be violently expelled from the muzzle, the force tearing everything apart. The singed bits would scatter for some yards in front of the gun while the shot of course flew furthest. But yeah, the miscellaneous stuff would be just like a modern shotgun’s wadding, that’s all.
Canister shot is what you’re looking for, grapeshot was used for navy commonly, although it wasn’t uncommon for armies to use it too. Grapeshot looked a lot like grapes, Canister shot had a shell cover it, so that’s why.
That's canister shot! Used for even shorter range than grapeshot
@@poopfacemctavish7080Have you tested this for yourself, or are you just guessing ? If you haven't actually recreated this for yourself, you have no idea whether of not the bag would've been burned away upon firing.
Little correction, the standoff was to create a seal between the shot and the gunpowder charge in order to block the barrel until enough back pressure built up to break the seal and propel the shot with enough velocity and distance to be effective.
Without the standoff which is actually called the Wad, the gunpowder would ignite and create an almighty fireball out the front of the barrel, propelling the shot a mere few feet, possibly even leaving some shot in the barrel.
It is simply a piston. There is zero chance for such a relatively cold flame and time in tiny fraction of second to burn solid chunk of wood - even more without oxygen as volume of barrel contains very little of it.
I guess the linen and cord were not burnt but rather worn down bu friction against barrel walls.
Yet I imagine why attack by infantry on the battery was such a horror and quite probably no quarters were given if it was actually stormed with success.
Hence the phrase: blew your wad
Also called a sabot (literally a Dutch wooden shoe), depending where you're from.
Took me a while to find this comment. I was starting to wonder where my other know it alls were.
@@professornuke7562 I've watched enough Mythbusters to know exactly how a Sabot works xD
PTSD back then must’ve been rough. I can’t imagine what a line of your buddies would look like after taking a volley of those.
Something like salsa?
PTSD is crackpot psychology meant to pry money out of the VA. I saw it coming when sailing back from the Persian Gulf in 1991. The Navy flew psycologists aboard our ship to talk about our feelings. Complete horseshit.
@@edheldude💯 and not vegan salsa
me and the boys gettin graped again
@@gordonlekfors2708 Look at the uniform you guys are wearing. You’re pretty much asking for it.
Imagine going into a gun store and being like
“You got any grapeshot?”
Or a bar !
And he said to the man, running the stand:
"Hey sir, got any grapes(hot)?"
Haha the duck song.
Waddle waddle
Buckshot doesn't sound too far off.
"Artillery adds dignity to what would otherwise be an ugly brawl." Frederick the Great
Old Fred clearly didn't visit any military hospital after a battle then lol
i thought that was Cavalry?
Yeah, because sitting entrenched getting pounded by Arty and dying to pure luck is so dignifying. Freddy was probably your average fucktard leader that never went to the front.
I have the poster
@@alanmonteros6432 Probably more than any of us ever will.
"LOADING GRAPESHOT!" Guts And Blackpowder Cannon Moment
A video on youtube titled "decembrist on senate square broken by grapeshot" give some image how nasty that weapon
I went and watched that. Definitely made a statement.. ignored or not. Damn.
Thanks for that recommendation, really helps realise just how nasty the grapeshot is, holy fuck
I was thinking of that video, absolutely horrendous.
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Excellent scene
those men took no cover,they marched right up to each other.
I would love to say I could do that but honestly I don't know if I could.
But then again I'm an old man with not that much to lose really.
You have 2 arms, 2 legs, meat and 2 veg.... You have plenty to lose
You survived all kinds of crap, you have your mind, your life is worth everything!
Be safe!
Because that was the best way to fight back then
@nicholase2868 you wouldn't see the plans, and if you ran you'd be shot by your own guys
Go out there and live it up you’re about to expire
Your NAILS are the proof that you are from Napoleon's era & fought in the Waterloo.
Thats horrific. The different ways humanity kills one another is astonishing
It's the male half of humanity that does this.
I've always said that if one really wants to see just how far the human race has advanced technologically in the last 200 years, one need only look at the advances in arms and armaments.
Foilbaby, the correct english is the word is humanity KIll.
Better than starvation that the Brits used on the Irish and the Russians used on the Ukrainians
Ik. Cool, huh?
He seems like a very strict commander
This is a normal Umiform of a British Light Infanterie Man... not an Officer
@@christiandude3149where did u read "Officer" ??
@@Lornsen420 He said it wasn’t an officer
@@Lornsen420 commander is a Officer in normal case...
@@Lornsen420 A Commander is an Officer. Officer is not a rank in itself but a person in a position of authority (especially military).
A Commander "commands" any armed forces unit and is therefore in a position of authority = Officer
"LOADING GRAPESHOT!" 🗣️🔥
"Shoot bro, press F"
"Ayo, who let the mobile user get into the cannon?"
Jesus man I just can't wrap my head around how nasty warfare was and still is. And back then if you didn't die instantly you'd be in for unimaginable suffering before death.
Today you also don't die instantly, not always at least. That is to my knowledge also preferred in modern warfare. Wounded soldiers bind more resources than dead soldiers.
Bled out , praying to God to make it end. Cannot imagine
Thank god war was so civilized by the turn of the 20th century.
@@TheGreatThicc I'm presuming you're joking but just in case you're not, do you not know anything about ww1 or ww2, or even Afghanistan, war has never been civilised
Even bros fingernails are historically accurate to the time period
i bet youre a little princess afraid of dirt LOL
@@yakikadafi745get a life
Reading your comment, I rewatched thinking they were grossly long or something. The guy's hands are normal, dude. Are you really that sun-deprived that dirty hands in a dirty situation is notable to you?
@@liamphillips4370his hands are practically clean, it's just his nails that are disgusting
That's what a normal man's hands look like dude. Not everyone has an office job typing on a keyboard lol.
This old man has the face of a legitimate war veteran.
During waterloo, the french cavalry attack, Captain mercer of the horse artillery loaded his guns with double ball and double cannister to be fired when about to be overrun at one point. Apparently it worked.
That name is scarily close to my last name which is mencer
@@andrewmencer916mincer is closer
No mercery.
*The manual:* "How to turn your cannon into a big-ass shotgun. Step one-"
other way around
people were like "hey what if we made grapeshot smaller so we could carry it around like a musket?"
canister was also used did this to a greater extent than grapeshot (larger number of smaller projectiles)
Theres no way that a flame from a cannon shot could burn away a block of wood.... too quick.
They bring the real bloke from napoleon era
Check out the picture of the Light Brigade survivers. They sit holding these shot removed from their faces and bodies. Mental.
I can't seem to find the picture you're referring to!
@@ColasTeam Just seen your msg. I am serious. Group of men sitting holding these things. Look up the Crimea campaign. Light Brigade survivers.
You're smoked out, I looked everywhere still can't find anything
@@iloveseph Whatever.
You can... survive catching a cannon propelled metal ball with Your face? Build different.
"haha you missed me sucker!"
*sees another 5 balls*
Great for shredding sails and reducing crew while minimising damage to the ship for capture.
British people were born with voices to give clear instructions on anything.
You've clearly never met a Scouse or Scot. Or really any Brit. Only RP speakers sound authoritative and educated. And Cornish peninsula people were born to tell captivating and ancient stories of heroes and treasure
@@St0ckwell What is RP?
@@drewnogy received pronunciation
I would like to see a slow motion video of the grapeshot being fired from a canon.
There are a few movies that depict the time around Napoleon that show the devastation of grapeshot, absolutely horrific.
grapeshot, and the more modern canister rounds, are genuinely terrifying things. You're turning large-barrel weapons into essentially giant shotguns, with all the devastation that implies.
I'm glad this intel brieffing survived until this day
“De kommer! Hælp us!” “Loading roundshot!” “ give them hell!!”
Nasty is an understatement
Literally a shotgun shell for a cannon
"they keep it handy (chk-chk) for close encounters."
First we have a comically large spoon now we have a comically large SHOTGUN!
Luckily, Richard Sharpe was there to save the day!
Now that’s good soldering!
You're a poor liar, Patrick!
@@naughtiusmaximus5057 That's what you pay me for Sir.
Your auto-captions generator seemed to forget he was saying grapeshot and started saying great shot
Heaven forbid anyone proofread the bot-generated captions before they publish.
To get an idea of the damage that grapeshot can do to a ship and crew watch "Master and Commander" and "Damn the Defiant".
The surgery scene in Master and Commander with the coin was wild. The fact that it was a real method is crazy
@@brbrdeng9122 The sand on the deck to get traction while operating...
@@brbrdeng9122 A lot of wounds were treated by cleaning debris from the wound, pouring in overproof rum along with a bit of gunpowder, and setting fire to it. Disinfects and cauterises the wound. Then sew it up with sailmaker’s thread, put some tar on it, and a canvas dressing. Many survived, with interesting scars to impress the girls in Port au Prince.
His fingers being dirty completes his character
For ships they would use cannon balls to against the hull, grapeshot against the crew and cain-shot which was two iron balls joined together with a chain. This last type of shot was particularly effective against rigging, boarding netting, and sails, since the balls and chain would whirl like bolas when fired.
There is also bar shot, a bar with a half ball on each end & hot shot to burn the ship ect.😊
“They’ve found grape shot on both sides… and they’ve found the mangled and perforated skeletons of the men who were on the receiving end of grape shot.”
“Loading Grapeshot”
shotgun-cannon-ammunition ... checks out.
Everybody gangster till i pull out the cannon sized shotgun.
Canister rounds were actually more effective because they used smaller balls (and, thus, more of them). Langrage was also used -- basically it was canister but with bits and bobs inside -- nails, iron scrap, etc. And Shrapnel was a canister round with an explosive charge that burst in a wider pattern.
canister shot is more effective in short range yes but grape was used for longer range shooting plus the mortars shooting would’ve also been effective
Solid shot at long range on a money battlefield may not have been all that effective, but I shuffer to imagine what a few batteries of Canon loaded with grape shot could do at close range
can imagine round shot to be extremely devastating to the french column formations since they were so deep
A money battlefield?🤑😂
So the modern version could be a claymore mine.
What’s a “money battlefield”?
big holes in peole
Why do I get the vibe he is an actual soldier from that time period and just stumbled across time travel
That'll give you a nasty bruise...😢
Wow, that's nasty! The human capacity to make others suffer will never cease to amaze me.
Sometimes a necessity when the other side won't consider civility or reason.
Oh, believe me, you got hit with that you would not suffer for long
From buckshot to this to chemical warfare and even nukes, one of the biggest motivations was to prevent the loss of life of your own people. The deadliest part is when your opponents are equally matched in technology.
It's not designed to cause suffering. it's designed to kill. Few weapons of war are designed with suffering in mind. In fact, there have been a few weapons that were outlawed from use in war BECAUSE they caused undue suffered and did not kill very efficiently.
@@danielfenton1686Depends on the distance and where you got hit, lol
Kinda seems like a modern day cluster grenade.
Why wouldn't you think it was the cannon equivalent of a shotgun?
Clearly more like a shotgun.
@@valdie91285 Clearly... as is evident by my comment. Smh.
@@castleanthrax1833 Well done. Except I was responding to the original comment. Not yours.
@valdie91285 I'm sorry, mate. For some reason, I read your comment as "clearly more than a shotgun," which is why I replied the way I did. ✌️
I love the sound track playing in the background. Reminds me of my class of clan days type shit when I was a commando
I knew of these things from Assassin's Creed, where it's used in ship-based combat as a way to disable other ships. I never considered how they might be when used on people.
Are you thinking of chain shot, where it's two larger balls chained together? Grape shot was used navally too though
@@Aarlaeoss There was that too. I think they appeared in different games, but had the same function.
Grapeshot was used to clear out the sailors on a ship lmao
Yeah grapeshot "disabling" a ship makes no sense apart from just killing the operators
@@Aarlaeoss I honestly always just assumed it was meant to be tearing through the sails, which would impede their movement, but I don't know how ships work.
Whats facinating to me is weve had millions of years to be peacefull creatures but all weve done is kill eachother in horrendous ways
Wars of conquest are so costly with modern weapons that the Russia invasion of Ukraine may be the last major one.
Just a shot gun shell
Firing grapeshot at the oncoming French? Now thats soldiering
"Use these grapes in your wine, Frenchie!"
That's his style sir
Chosen man?!
Taking a Grape shot:
🍾😎
Taking a Grapeshot:
💀🔥
🍾😎👍
Quite handy when the natives got restless in the various colonies of the British Empire.
credit to the cameraman for going back in time to film an actual military officer from the time
Interviewer: Sir how many wars have you fought in?
British Soldier: (accent)🤔🤔 What century is this again?
Great shots on both sides, guys. 👍
I keep my cannon at home loaded with this
Canister shot
It's not in a canister
Both canister and grapeshot are different
Canister shot is the Army version, and was smaller.
Canister is just that, CAN for musket shot or whatever inside a can.
Grapeshot was really designed and meant for the naval demi-cannons (some as large as 32 pounders)
Where canister was meant for the much smaller field artillery.
The battlefield surgeon: "Nope. No saving that lad. Next!"
At Aspern Essling in 1809, the Old Guard was deployed against two batteries of Austrian 12-lbers, for an hour, in "single rank" at 100 yds, and forced the artillery to retire due to excessive casualties from their musketry. Of the 1200 casualties taken by the Guard, roughly 2/3 were back with their units in a few weeks. Baron Larrey, head of Napoleon's medical corps, was a magician.
His nails tell me he is a true Napoleon soldier
What's the utility of grapeshot? Is it supposed to spread out, hitting multiple targets, or what?
Basically. Imagine turning a Canon into a giant shotgun. But instead of firing buckshot, They're flying 37 mm balls.
That is the spray and pray baby
Yes, it's the predecessor of the canister shot ,which had even more but smaller bullets.
The range of the target necessitates the type of ammnition. You could shread fomartions of cavlary or cause mass panic with this. The stretgh of a force was measured in the numbers of cannons , colums of men , and numbers of horses. Battles were often fought in or arrond small towns. and the treatment of civalains was brutall.
I only asked for a packet of Pringles
me Learning every type of shot for the cannon in guts and black powder
....hurts just thinkin bout it...😮
Firing lengths of heavy chain was pretty brutal too.
That was some brutal shit.
I'll be looking forward to Basil's Collision deck. I still play with his Bloomlordmon list (updated a bit) occasionally. I also think Collision is one of the coolest mechanics they've made, so I'm really excited to see what he's made with it. We seem to have similar taste and that makes me feel good.
Is this Chris Packham's dad? Perhaps this is why he objects so strongly to the sporting shooter.
A lead ball that size would take your head off.
And the guy beside you and a couple behind you.
I love that he's holding it like a baby.
Don't want to stand or march in the line of fire of this cannon.
A whiff of grapeshot. 😱
Early cluster munitions. Human morbid ingenuity never rests.
10:19 the cushion on his gamer chair looks like devil horns which is a bit poetic in a way
Instructions unclear, mauled.
Looks like that one sort of sausage to me tbh
I've had Haemorrhoids like that.....
The wood base was basically a sort of sabot that dropped away as the muzzle flash burned the bag rather than being burned up itself. The block allowed some cup pressure to build behind the cluster of shot.
"We know they used grape shot at Waterloo because, well, I was there."
My childhood lied to me. I've spent 25 years thinking they just dumped them in the cannon. My books only showed them together, did not mention cordage, bag, or wood piece.
It’s amazing people figured this crap out
Now this man is soldiering.
Bro thought nobody would notice that he's an assassin