Link to the related website that has useful info: the Age of Nelson.

This forum is devoted to the Royal Navy during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (1793 - 1815).
And why not the other navies of the period?
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Post Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 8:24 pm    Post subject: How to fire a great gun Reply with quote

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQSBxQiLSyQ
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Post Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2011 1:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

For me this video is Constitution in Disneyland.

Difficult to imagine the crew going outside the port in the middle of a battle.

For the cartidges, I think they were using them as it would have been very dangerous to use loose gunpowder.

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