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Showing posts with label grenades. Show all posts
Showing posts with label grenades. Show all posts
Sunday, 31 January 2016
Grenades.
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18th century,
battle,
grenades,
gunpowder,
living history,
military,
pirates,
war
Australia
Australia
Thursday, 26 April 2012
The 18th Century Grenadier's Match Case.
Match Case
A brass grenadier's match case was found in the northwest corner of the west casemate (Level II) (fig. 47). This is a perforated cylinder with reinforcing bands around the top and bottom. There is a perforated cone in one end. The whole case is 7 inches long and 1 inch in diameter. It was held by two rivets to a brass plate 4.2 by 2.1 inches in size which was sewn to a belt. It was designed to carry a slow match for igniting incendiaries, such as grenades. The slow match and pull ring were not found. A similar specimen is illustrated by Darling (1970, p. 1). It was probably a relic of the British occupation.
Friday, 2 April 2010
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