On the Use of Grape and Canister to Kill and Maim

  From The Art of Soldiering, Fifth Edition

  Grape.

  Medium iron balls, bound tightly in burlap and loaded as a single charge. Burlap and powder are to be kept separate until ramming. Intended for medium distance against compacted ranks. When employed correctly, grape breaks formations, shreds flesh, and produces wounds beyond remedy. Survivors burden the enemy more than the dead.

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  Canister.

  Loaded in a canister fitted precisely to the cannon’s bore. Each charge shall contain no fewer than two hundred balls for full effect. At close range, canister surpasses all musket fire known to this age. It fells horses, removes limbs, and empties ground. To be fired when the enemy commits in mass, so that their advance is halted and their will turned.