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cannonmn
09-06-2008, 04:47 PM
Starting on pp. 12 of this book, there's a list of 450 different projectiles, many experimental, many with names I've never heard. Many are Civil War and some are postwar since the exhibition mentioned was in 1876. I ran across this by accident.

http://books.google.com/books?id=h3UDAA ... t#PPA12,M1 (http://books.google.com/books?id=h3UDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA8&lpg=PA8&dq=spanish+breechloading+cannon&source=web&ots=MK8aKym8Ap&sig=INIPgEqA2lfpI29BXhq1cuMN8U4&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result#PPA12,M1)