This is from a book called A Question Of Loyalty. (pg.6)
From one side of a field piece manned by someone in uniform lobbed grapeshot impartially at defenders and attackers alike.
napoleon
he was wounded in the battle of Saratoga by a grapeshot.
Captain Roberts was killed by grapeshot, which struck him in the throat while he stood on the deck.
Early pellets were called grapeshot
During a riot in Paris he attacked the crowds using cannons filled with small pellets. This tactic was very effective. Napoleon later referred to this using the phrase 'a whiff of grapeshot'.
No, from wounds received from a cannon loaded with grapeshot. Grapeshot is a package of large lead balls fired from a cannon. The cloth package of round lead shot, wrapped with string, looks a bit like a bunch of grapes.
I believe that it was called grapeshot.
He defended the Directory against a Royalist counter revolution with a whiff of grapeshot.
He ended the Royalist counter-revolution with a whiff of grapeshot.
He ended the Royalist Counterrevolution by killing 1,400 protestors with a "whiff of Grapeshot" in support of the Directory.
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