"The Balls Whistled over our heads: Continentals" Topic
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| Tango01 | 19 Jul 2018 10:36 p.m. PST |
…. AND CANNONBALLS "The booming roar of cannon shattered the stillness of the warm summer air around Boston. A thirty-two pound cannonball screamed through the sky toward the Continental army encampment in Roxbury. Smashing through the wall of a house and tearing through two partitions, the shot ripped through a room where soldiers were eating breakfast. The ball plowed into a chimney and an explosive spray of bricks and chunks of ceiling rained down on the breakfasting soldiers, filling their dishes with plaster and dust.[1] Before he knew it, Maryland rifleman Daniel McCurtin had sprinted down "two pair of stairs of three strides without a fall and as soon as I was out of doors ran to the Brestwork in great haste, which is our place of safety, without the least concern about my breakfast."…."
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