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Re: My fleet is (emphatically not) bigger'n your fleet!
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lugnet.pirates
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Mon, 8 Nov 1999 21:50:47 GMT
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Bruce Schlickbernd wrote:
> In lugnet.pirates, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
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> > _The Art of War_ makes that one of its central tenets--not the "manhandle the
> > horses" thing, but "don't hit them where they're strongest". Wheel out the • long
> > carronades and circle 'em with sloops! Arrr...1588 all over again.
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> > I can perhaps understand the horses--after all, there's only one pirate wench.
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> > LFB.
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> Them carronades be throwing a big ball a short ways. Good fer poundin' in
> close. "Long carronades" be what they call an oxymoron (I be an eddicated
> pyrate).
Ahhh heck. You're right. What am I thinking of? Not culverins--those are old
bronze art-deco cannon, though they were long...I think that may be the term used
to refer to the long-range chasers as well.
LFB
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| (...) the (...) wench. (...) old (...) used (...) Long cannons were simply refered to as long cannons, or long (shot weight). E.G. Long 18s, long 12s, long 9s. Long versions of a shot size were considerably heavier than than non-long version, so (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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