https://padlet.com/19sbender/7xdszpi2dojq Made with love en-us 2018-05-10 17:30:32 UTC 2018-05-22 18:06:31 UTC hello@padlet.com 19sbender https://padlet.com/19sbender/7xdszpi2dojq/wish/259718033 Appeared in Europe in the 16 century ]]> 2018-05-10 17:32:42 UTC https://padlet.com/19sbender/7xdszpi2dojq/wish/259718033 19sbender https://padlet.com/19sbender/7xdszpi2dojq/wish/259718488 2018-05-10 17:33:38 UTC https://padlet.com/19sbender/7xdszpi2dojq/wish/259718488 19sbender https://padlet.com/19sbender/7xdszpi2dojq/wish/259720862 Battle of Crecy- first battle with cannon ]]> 2018-05-10 17:39:04 UTC https://padlet.com/19sbender/7xdszpi2dojq/wish/259720862 19sbender https://padlet.com/19sbender/7xdszpi2dojq/wish/259721562 Artillery had been used previously, of course, in the Middle Ages, but had not used gunpowder’s chemical energy to fire stone and metal or stone projectiles]]> 2018-05-10 17:40:47 UTC https://padlet.com/19sbender/7xdszpi2dojq/wish/259721562 19sbender https://padlet.com/19sbender/7xdszpi2dojq/wish/259721965  Earlier records show that "Edward III used artillery against the Scots in 1327 and 1328, where the dismayed Highlanders called them 'infernal crakys of war”.]]> 2018-05-10 17:41:41 UTC https://padlet.com/19sbender/7xdszpi2dojq/wish/259721965 19sbender https://padlet.com/19sbender/7xdszpi2dojq/wish/259722397  Early cannons were notoriously unreliable, inaccurate and difficult to control when firing. In practice, the recoil, the poor quality of the powder and the fact that the early guns overheated quickly, made them almost as dangerous for the men operating them as for the enemy.]]> 2018-05-10 17:42:47 UTC https://padlet.com/19sbender/7xdszpi2dojq/wish/259722397 19sbender https://padlet.com/19sbender/7xdszpi2dojq/wish/259722531 Early cannons were called pots de feu (pots of fire) because they resembled a large cast bronze round pot-like bulb at the breech end, narrowing to a bugle like tube at the muzzle end of the gun. They were shaped very much like a kitchen baster.]]> 2018-05-10 17:43:05 UTC https://padlet.com/19sbender/7xdszpi2dojq/wish/259722531 19sbender https://padlet.com/19sbender/7xdszpi2dojq/wish/259723075 Incendiary iron cannon balls or stones were created by coating them in tar, and the flash from the gunpowder explosion would ignite the balls, creating a flaming projectile that would set fire to wooden buildings.]]> 2018-05-10 17:44:20 UTC https://padlet.com/19sbender/7xdszpi2dojq/wish/259723075 19sbender https://padlet.com/19sbender/7xdszpi2dojq/wish/259723193 15 century- made with just iron ]]> 2018-05-10 17:44:41 UTC https://padlet.com/19sbender/7xdszpi2dojq/wish/259723193 19sbender https://padlet.com/19sbender/7xdszpi2dojq/wish/262796431 walls of luca defended-couldn't anymore after cannons ]]> 2018-05-22 18:05:38 UTC https://padlet.com/19sbender/7xdszpi2dojq/wish/262796431