Now THIS is what "Rome" needed to keep those fierce Barbarians and pesky Celts under control !
The Commander inspects this "six-pounder" piece at Fort Malden in Amherstburg, Ontario - 1998
The only problem is, that by the time you prepared the weapon for action by "Worming and then Sponging the Piece" and "Penting the Vent"; your adversary would have most likely "over-run" the gun's position; that is until a charge of "canister" was fired.