Cool Pirate Math: How to Aim a Cannon, Pirate Weaponry

Join our discord: Hand over them doubloons: Fork it over: At first, I was going to cover cannons in one video. Then it became two. Then it became three, and here we are: hopefully, this is the fourth and final video. When I first started researching cannons, I only skimmed the instructions on how to aim em, and found them to be rather arcane. But after receiving requests about it, I couldn t quite shake the itch. So I decided to dig into the period manuals, both the English and French, and it doesn t seem quite as complicated as I made it out to be. Modern sources: The SeaRover s Practice Benerson Little Period Sources: The SeaGunner John Seller Seaman s Grammar John Smith Elements of War Guillaume le Blond Les Travaux de Mars Alain Manesson Mallet 0:00 Introduction 1:13 Ranges 3:24 Parts 4:02 Aiming at point blank 8:08 Aiming beyond point blank 11:45 Aiming tactics and conclusion 13:25 Outro , history, cannons, pirates, privateers, goldandgunpowder