Case shot and practice of fire: A conundrum?

Consider this figure: This particular figure appeared in “Elementary Lectures on artillery: Prepared for the use of the gentlemen cadets of the Royal Military Academy” by Captains Charles Henry Owen and Thomas Longworth Dames, published in 1861.  And as “Royal” implied, these were English officers and not Americans.  Still, the technology was the same andContinue reading “Case shot and practice of fire: A conundrum?”