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Carronades were on the principle of a gigantic shotgun, firing masses of bullets with great effect at very short ranges less than that of a long musket-shot, then reckoned at two hundred yards. The biggest mortars threw 13-inch 224-lb shells to a great distance. But their main use was for high-angle fire, such as that from the suburb of St Roch under the walls of Quebec.
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