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Onetap1 t1_ius4fg3 wrote
Reply to Today I learned that dandelion roots can be used to make a coffee-like beverage. by ty775pearl
I made it, once. Its like watery coffee. I wouldn't bother again, unless the U-boats start sinking all the coffee imports again.
Onetap1 t1_it8esl2 wrote
Reply to comment by jezreelite in Was this behavior and culture like that with the wealthy Englishmen in the early 20th century? by Upperphonny
>Anthony Eden in Brideshead Revisited is based...
Anthony Blanche
Onetap1 t1_isngh58 wrote
Reply to comment by MeSmeshFruit in Has metal ever been used in ancient/medieval fortifications or any equivalent by HDH2506
Yes, quite.
Pulaski was under direct, line-of-sight, fire with rifled artillery, which was the big game changer. There was no accurate counter battery fire from the fort, they didn't have rifled artillery.
The Prezmy fort could not be engaged with direct fire because of the earthworks, trenches and barbed wire defending it. You could lob shells at it with howitzers and mortars, from behind earthworks, but they're nowhere near as accurate. If you breach the walls, you can't easily assault it because of the earthworks, barbed wire, trenches, machine guns, etc.. The defenders would be mostly underground, no-one would be relying on a masonry fort for protection from artillery.
Onetap1 t1_irxaeqc wrote
Reply to comment by HDH2506 in Has metal ever been used in ancient/medieval fortifications or any equivalent by HDH2506
A Bugatti, an heirloom.
Onetap1 t1_irsz76m wrote
No, metal was too expensive. Having a metal pot was a status symbol, like having a Mercedes now.
Trebuchets and cannons weren't accurate, it would take days or weeks of bombardment to breach the walls of a masonry fort.
All that changed at Fort Pulaski in 1862. The new rifled cannons were accurate enough to hit the fort at the same point repeatedly. The walls were breached within 30 hours, the fort surrendered (very sensible). Masonry forts became obsolete.
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Reply to comment by Doxbox49 in TIL that after the battle between the USS Constitution and HMS Guerriere, the captain of the Constitution, Isaac Hull, refused the sword of surrender from the captain of the Guerriere, James Richard Dacre, saying he could not accept it from a man who fought so gallantly by alcapwnage0007
>You know how many times it’s been basically rebuilt?
Exactly as you'd expect for a ship that's still afloat, if you want it to stay floating. I think that there's only 10 or 15% of the original wood remaining in Constitution.
There is a lot more of the original timber from USS Chesapeake surviving, in a flour mill in Hampshire. It has been surveyed by naval archaeologists.