Soldiers and Sailors or, Anecdotes, Details, and Recollections of Naval and Military Life, as Related to His Nephews, by an Old Officer.

CHAPTER VII.

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Weapons of war.—Artillery.—Train of artillery.—Chevaux-de- frise.—Bows and arrows.—The old archer.—The musket.—The bayonet.—Captain Von Selmnitz.—Broad-swords.—Highlanders.— Artillery and stores sent to Spain.—James II. of Scotland.— Buonaparte and Colonel Evain.—Wooden cannon.—Brass twenty- four-pounder from the wreck of the Royal George.—The brass sixty-eight-pounder in the Tower, called the ‘Great Harry.’—A beautiful mortar.—The new destructive power. 80