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Re: Cannons?
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lugnet.castle
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Wed, 14 Nov 2001 05:41:55 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Adam Murtha writes:
> This is probably a stupid question, but when did cannons come into use?
> Would a ship in the 'castle' era have cannons?
The commonly accepted date for the European adoption of cannon
is 1327, when one appears (IIRC) on the Bayeux Tapestry as sort
of a modified ballista (it's firing a giant arrowhead). But
that's an indication that, by then, cannon had diffused fairly
widely in Central Europe; the Ottomans and, of course, the Indians
and Chinese had used them for centuries before that. (The major
difference was in their employ, not in their existence.) But
seagoing cannon in Europe begin to appear, in their most primitive
form, by 1400. "Great ships" that use cannon as their raison
d'être come about a century and a half later, however.
(Carlo Cippola is really recommended reading on this point, even
though some of his suppositions are out of date--_Guns, Sails,
and Empires_ dates from 1965.)
So the answer to your question is "maybe," but in any case they
wouldn't have nearly the gigantic advantage that cannon would
in, say, the age of .pirates.
best
LFB
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| (...) Correction--oops. Bayeux Tapestry is the depiction of the Battle of Hastings. I'm thinking of another tapestry, but the date is right (1324, 1326, and 1327 are the ones given). I hate making misteaks like that. best LFB (23 years ago, 14-Nov-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| This is probably a stupid question, but when did cannons come into use? Would a ship in the 'castle' era have cannons? (23 years ago, 14-Nov-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates)
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