"Rich Rostrom" <rrostrom.21stcentury@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> You seem to think that a matchlock musket
> with a maximum effective range of maybe
> a hundred yards, that takes a minute to reload,
> and can't even be fired in wet weather,
> is "the wrath of God".
From a standing start you can get three volleys in the first minute and
they'll blow holes in seventeenth century steel breastplates at 200 yards.
The Romans march into battle, they'll get shot to bits in the two minutes
it tales to march up to the people with the guns.
People stopped using bows and arrows (never mind javelins) for exactly
that
reason...
Guns of the period are undoubtedly slow and clumsy, but they reach out and
kill armoured men at ranges that had never been seen before...
--
William Black
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach
Time for tea.
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