I’m pretty sure everyone saw old cannons that used big round balls, but how effective were they? pretty sure the pirate ones were pretty effective at making holes in enemy ships. The early ones seem like they would hit the dirt and the dirt would shrapnel over the soldiers. Am I missing something or would these cannons offer a single shot kill or what?
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Movies tend to show cannons as relatively ineffective spud gun. The truth is that they were very effective, with an effective range of several kilometers and able to tear down houses and ships at that range. Against troops in formation, it could strike straight through several men; or you could load it with grape shots, turning it into a gian shot gun, causing extreme damaga against many targets; or you could load it with chain, which basically became a flying lawnmower, cutting down everything and everyone in it’s way.
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