Away with the Blunderbuss!
Anon
Genre: | Announcement, Spoof |
Subjects: | Military Technology, Invention, War |
Describes the 'wooden pistol' which has been constructed 'thanks to the roguery of Muscovite contractors'. Complains that the 'British dragoon is armed with a weapon about as useless as a pistol of wood'—a carbine which is notoriously inaccurate. | |
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