Hoss Posted February 21, 2011 Report Share Posted February 21, 2011 Bless those engineers and tinkerers for those handy guns of today!The battle of Towton, March 29th, 1461Arrows were not the only things flying through the air that day. Some of the first bullets were, too. The Towton battlefield has yielded up the earliest lead-composite shot found in England. Mr Sutherland thinks he may have found a fragment of a handgun, which was small enough to be carried around and probably set down on a trestle table or small carriage to be fired.http://www.economist.com/node/17722650 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asmurff Posted February 21, 2011 Report Share Posted February 21, 2011 Good article :thumb: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asmurff Posted February 23, 2011 Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 History is one of my favorite past-times specially military history. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoss Posted February 23, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 Ja, fascinating stuff. I can recall being mesmerized in grade school by the story telling in history class. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asmurff Posted February 23, 2011 Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 I read more history than fiction and most of the fiction I read is Historical, right now I'm reading a series by Conn Iggulden on Ghengis Khan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glowin Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 But what it doesn't say is that in 1462 our government banned it ;DGlowin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoss Posted March 13, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 13, 2011 I read more history than fiction and most of the fiction I read is Historical, right now I'm reading a series by Conn Iggulden on Ghengis Khan.Just read "The Hammer and the Cross" by Harry Harrison, and evidently co-written with Tolkien scholar Tom Shippey. It's fiction, alternate history of a sort, but incredibly realistic. Brutal though, and not for the faint of heart. It was, however, utterly fascinating. Reminded me of The Chosen, The Stone Dance of the Chameleon, by Ricardo Pinto; which, as an aside, goes beyond cruel and into the unfathomably vicious. However, the atmosphere in both books, and the realism of the particular cultures is something to behold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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