grape shot
Clustered anti-personnel artillery rounds
Grapeshot is a type of ammunition consisting of small iron balls clustered together, fired from cannons to scatter like shotgun pellets.
Used primarily in naval warfare and land battles from the 17th through 19th centuries, it was devastating against massed troops at close range: The cannon loaded with grapeshot tore through the advancing infantry.
- canisterSealed cylindrical container
- cannonLarge mounted gun
- cannon fireDischarge from heavy artillery
- artilleryLarge-caliber battlefield weapons
- musketMuzzle-loaded infantry firearm
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- coastal artillerycoastal batteries, gun emplacements, heavy ordnance, Fort Sumter, Fort McHenry
- naval ordnancenaval guns, torpedoes, naval artillery, naval mines, depth charges
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Round artillery ammunition
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