What is missing?

[DonaldBabbett]

What are all the components it takes to fire a muzzle-loading cannon?

Only the following personnel and munitions are
provided for in the classic children's book by Barbara
and Ed Emberley:

Private Parriage brought the carriage.
Corporal Farrel brought the barrel.
Sergeant Chowder brought the powder.
Captain Bammer brought the rammer.
Major Scott brought the shot.
General Border gave the order.



What was missing in the book so that
Drummer Hoff could possibly fire it off?


Private Parriage brought the carriage.
Corporal Farrel brought the barrel.
Sergeant Chowder brought the powder.
Lieutenant Todd brought the wad.
Captain Bammer brought the rammer.
Major Scott brought the shot.
Colonel Muse brought the fuse.
Chaplain Hatch brought the match.
General Border gave the order.

[SVT-40]

What's missing, is the reason to post this in the C&R forum.....

[DonaldBabbett]

What's missing, is the reason to post this in the C&R forum.....

The reason is a question about black-powder arms technology in which a muzzle-loading cannon is part of.

This is actually a serious question.

What actually ignites the charge in a black-powder cannon, or did historically?

[RudyN]

It was called a friction primer. You hooked a line up to the primer and when pulled it created sparks that ignited the primer charge which ignited the main charge and Boom!


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[DonaldBabbett]

It was called a friction primer. You hooked a line up to the primer and when pulled it created sparks that ignited the primer charge which ignited the main charge and Boom!


Sent from the Telegraph Office

Colonel Dixon Grimer brought the friction primer?

[aghauler]

It was called a friction primer. You hooked a line up to the primer and when pulled it created sparks that ignited the primer charge which ignited the main charge and Boom!


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Also loose powder in a touch hole, or fuse, a flintlock device.

[DonaldBabbett]

Also loose powder in a touch hole, or fuse, a flintlock device.

Colonel Clinton Van Nuys (pronounced NIZE) brought the flintlock device.

Warrant Officer Utchell brought the touch hole.

[musketjon]

If you have to ask this kind of question, methinks you haven't done your homework and should leave the heavy Artillery well-enough alone. And just for the record, YES, I have crewed/fired Artillery in competition.
Jon

[DonaldBabbett]

If you have to ask this kind of question, methinks you haven't done your homework and should leave the heavy Artillery well-enough alone. And just for the record, YES, I have crewed/fired Artillery in competition.
Jon

I don't plan to fire artillery. I just need more inside knowledge to improve a children's poetic story book about it.

I do know it takes so many things to make a cannon go BOOM!


You probably never fired muzzle-loading cannon in competition.
This old-fashioned piece of artillery is mainly ceremonial these days.

[Librarian]

I don't plan to fire artillery. I just need more inside knowledge to improve a children's poetic story book about it.

I do know it takes so many things to make a cannon go BOOM!


You probably never fired muzzle-loading cannon in competition.
This old-fashioned piece of artillery is mainly ceremonial these days.

I think you may enjoy broadening your reading selection, For example, http://issuu.com/artillerymanmagazine/docs/fall_2015/5

[musketjon]

I don't plan to fire artillery. I just need more inside knowledge to improve a children's poetic story book about it.

I do know it takes so many things to make a cannon go BOOM!


You probably never fired muzzle-loading cannon in competition.
This old-fashioned piece of artillery is mainly ceremonial these days.

Yes, I HAVE fired muzzle loading Artillery in competition. I am a member of the Civil War Skirmish Association, the West Coast equivalent to the NSSA back east. Artillery competition is one of our courses of fire.
Jon