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Re: Cannons?
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lugnet.castle
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Wed, 14 Nov 2001 05:45:52 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> 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?
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> The commonly accepted date for the European adoption of cannon
> is 1327, when one appears (IIRC) on the Bayeux Tapestry
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
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Cannons?
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| Very interesting, thanks Mr. LFB. But I have another question for you, when did guns and gunpowder come into use? (...) (23 years ago, 14-Nov-01, to lugnet.castle)
| | | Found a resource! (Was: Re: Cannon?)
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| (...) I just stumbled upon a really cool resource on early, early cannon and firearms: (URL) It has a picture of said cannon, though in a manuscript rather than on a tapestry. And I apologise for being a CAD by replying to my own post not ONCE but (...) (23 years ago, 14-Nov-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Cannons?
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| (...) 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 (...) (23 years ago, 14-Nov-01, to lugnet.castle)
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