Will Sticks Stop a Cannon? Recreating the Battle of Valcour Island

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Today we're shooting a stand in USS Philadelphia with our revolutionary war style black powder cannon. Our stand in Philadelphia is made out of 2" thick solid red oak planks. During The Battle Valcour Island in 1776, Benedict Arnold ordered his soldiers to armor up their ships with fascines (bundles of green saplings tightly bound together) in an attempt to block musket fire and small canister shot. Today we're recreating that battle bu armoring up our stand in Philadelphia with a few bundles of fascines and we're going to be shooting it with the standard naval shot from the time to see if the fascines will stop a cannon. Will the fascines stop any projectiles? What kind of damage will they do to the hull? What kind of splinter damage will the hull do to someone on the ship? Let's find out!
The Battle of Valcour Island:
www.americanheritage.com/batt...
USS Philadelphia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Phi...)
00:00-01:54 Intro
01:55-02:44 Target and Fascines
02:55-04:20 First Shot
04:21-05:36 Second Shot
05:37-07:32 Third Shot
07:33-08:55 Fourth Shot
08:56-10:33 Fifth Shot
10:34-11:58 Final Shot
11:59-13:00 Damage Overview
13:01-13:27 Cannonball in Tree
13:28-13:55 Shrapnel Damage
13:56-15:01 Outro
If you have any ideas about things you'd like to see us shoot with the cannon or shoot out of the cannon leave them in a comment below and we will try to get those out for you guys!
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@TheCannoneer 3 месяца назад

What was your favorite shot? What do you want to see us shoot next?

@dylanrush9750 2 месяца назад

Can your cannon with chain or bar shot take down a sail?

@TheCannoneer 2 месяца назад

@@dylanrush9750 I've got that on the list for a future one! Just need to build the sail stand in! Great idea!

@articjackal 2 месяца назад

I would like to see how the bar and the chain shot are made. It would also be neat to see a "modern" shot with some bicycle break cable used instead of chain. Maybe with about a foot of cable to test out on the sails if possible. Thanks for the videos

@shooter.2578 2 месяца назад

What about a wax slug wax and 45cal lead balls Or a cut shell Or hot glue and lead balls like a wax slug Shotgun rounds but bigger and badder

@SuperRoo22 2 месяца назад

That Shrapnel damage shot really puts into perspective just how bad navel warfare really would've been on a wooden ships.

@TheCannoneer 2 месяца назад

Yeah I would not have wanted to be on one. Someone suggested putting some gel or a few watermelons to see the shrapnel and I love that idea.

@SuperRoo22 2 месяца назад

@@TheCannoneer absolutely. Using the clear gel would depict the damage rather well as well as show just how deep it would go. Watermelons would also be pretty epic on the slow mo.

@rustymustard7798 2 месяца назад

Every time he says "This is my cannon" I hear "There are many like it, but this one is mine" in my head immediately following.

@TheCannoneer 2 месяца назад

Hahaha you can build one and have your own too!

@rustymustard7798 2 месяца назад

@@TheCannoneer I will eventually, i want to build a blunderbuss first lol.

@TheCannoneer 2 месяца назад

Share some pics on my instagram!

@CZ350tuner Месяц назад

Have you ever read about the Royal Navy's "Copper Head" shells, dating from the 1870's?? They were the Victorian version of modern HESH shells, designed to deal with iron clad naval vessels. The shell was a iron cup with a front facing soft copper ball, filled with black powder, fixed to the front. On impact with a piece of sheet iron, the copper ball would deform and spread until the black powder self detonated, transmitting a wracking shock wave through the sheet iron and causing spalling on the far side. Copper Head shells were rendered obstelete, by the 1880's, when laminating sheet iron with oak became standard practice in iron clad warship design.

@TheCannoneer Месяц назад

I have not but those sound horrifying. I don’t exactly know the laws on exploding projectiles but I’d sure like to make one of those! Thanks!

@arthurneddysmith 2 месяца назад

Fascine relates to the word "fascist" and was a part of the emblem of many fascist groups. It essentially held the connotation of "being united makes strength," just as tying small sticks together makes a strong barrier. It also relates to the word "faggot" which used to mean a "bundle of sticks".

@TheCannoneer 2 месяца назад

Very very true!

@idahoanarmor9014 2 месяца назад

Id like to see cannonballs vs some fortifications. Stone, lumber, maybe some thin metal, and I think it would be cool to have a big piece of cardboard or something like that as a witness plate behind your targets to see how much fragmentation is generated, and how widely it spreads out behind the target. Love these vids man, keep it up!

@TheCannoneer 2 месяца назад

Oh good idea! I’ve through about that before but I’ll have to look into getting a catcher for the backstop. I just built a cinder block wall so that should be a fun one. I’ll add the others to the list! Thanks for the kind words!

@CZ350tuner Месяц назад

For at least 8 centuries, fortification walls had cavities filled with gravel, sand, soil, etc. to prevent wracking occurring. Wracking is the technical term used to describe the effects of a shock wave, from a non-penetrating impact on one side of a wall, passing through and causing spalling from the opposite side. The expression, "Wrack and ruin" originates from this.

@victormartin2774 2 месяца назад

Nerdy snack for the algorithm : At 9:30 you can see the camera shaking because of the shockwawe, this prove that, 1) that cannon has quite a decent amount of power and 2) since the balls impact after the camera was shaked, they are travelling at subsonic speeds. Not surprising considering that they come out of a black powder cannon but balls coming out of a musket would have been faster, although not by much.

@TheCannoneer 2 месяца назад

I didn’t ever think about that but it makes complete logical sense. I’ll have to get a chronograph one of these days and see how fast they are really going.

@vfbrs2382 2 месяца назад

@@TheCannoneera chronograph is expensive and needs to be placed far away from the muzzle to avoid errors due to interferences with the smoke of black powder firearms. Frame counting is free but it’s time consuming and can be inaccurate if you are not careful. On the other hand it should work great for grapeshot.

@dumnoah8331 2 месяца назад

Amazing historical video, I expected the bundles to work a little bit better (maybe soaking them in water would make them more effective). And great APFSDS teaser at the beginning, can't wait.

@TheCannoneer 2 месяца назад

I sorta of did too to be honest. We will have to wet everything as someone else suggested that too! I’m excited for the APfSDS too. So much. They took forever to print them all.

@dumnoah8331 2 месяца назад

@TheCannoneer yeah im really interested in them, modern tanks fire them out of smooth bore's to, so I hope they work in a smooth bore cannon. Are you making the "dart" part of the apfsds from metal? or is it all plastic?

@knivesiguess 2 месяца назад

Man, this was a GREAT video idea. Love history stuff. BTW the way the new pre-fire shot facing the camera instead of holding the touch stick while talking is an improvement.

@TheCannoneer 2 месяца назад

I’m learning!

@knivesiguess 2 месяца назад

Learning how to function on camera is probably the hardest part of getting a channel to establish equilibrium. There'll be a lot of changes that happen organically alongside the parts you actively work on.

@Bayan1905 2 месяца назад

There is a full scale replica of the Philadelphia at the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum Basin Harbor, Vermont. I've been on it a couple of times when it was actually on Lake Champlain, it's now on the grounds of the museum, more or less minus the guns and gear. My first visit in 2001 that I have photos of show the fascines and how they were hung above the decks leaving about 18 inches of visibility for the gun crews to see out to fire on the enemy. The biggest reason for the fascines was to protect the crews from Mohawk allied to the British because the fleet would be anchored in an inlet and the Mohawk would get close and sneak up to about 50 yards or so from where the ships were anchored and fire on the crews. I tested fascine armor once with a .570" roundball which would have been around the size of the preferred Native American trade muskets and the Fusil de chasse which were about .60-.62 caliber as well as buck n ball loads. The British ships were bigger and had heavier guns than Arnold's fleet and simply more of them. The Philadelphia had three cannons, a 12 pounder and two 9 pounders. If you look at the original Philadelphia that's in the Smithsonian, there's a British cannon ball stuck in the hull and it punched a hole in that helped the gunboat sink.

@TheCannoneer 2 месяца назад

I missed that on the photos! I did see they had a swivel gun that’s the same size as ours! I’m planning on having a buddy that has a bunch of original firearms on at some point and we will shoot some fascines again with those rifles and see what happened. Hopefully I can check out that museum one of these days!

@articjackal 2 месяца назад

Looking forward to the sabots.

@markcurtis4465 2 месяца назад

I've often wondered how a tool steel dart with delren sabots would preform in a black powder cannon.

@skipsmoyer4574 2 месяца назад

Bar and Chain shot are for firing at rigging. The canister is for personal, Cannon on sea used grape shot, bigger than musket balls tied together in a grape bunch, not sure possible in a small caliber artillery piece. Nice presentation

@TheCannoneer 2 месяца назад

We’ve got a huge selection of musket balls so I think we’ve got up to .69 cal so far. I’m hoping to make some of the naval quilted grape one of these days. Thanks for tuning in!

@tendraftsdeep 2 месяца назад

Great video as always!

@CZ350tuner Месяц назад

As a defence against period Royal Navy 18, 24, 32, 36 & 42 pound ammunition, shot from Carronades, the fascines would have next to useless. There are videos of what a Carronade ball does to a 12 inches thickness of laminated Oak and it's quire a mess, particularly for anyone on the other side. They were more of a 18th century American "Cope Cage" crew psychological aid.

@TheCannoneer Месяц назад

I’d be willing to be it would stop a musket ball but that’s about all other than just adding more splinters to the deck!

@TheCannoneer Месяц назад

I’ve seen the broadside video before on that full size ship hull and those splinters are insane. I’m hoping we can get a bigger cannon at some point and go again!

@ludecom-cz1wz 2 месяца назад

Can we see what the splinters will do to a meat target? I've heard they were a bigger worry than the actual ball itself.

@TheCannoneer 2 месяца назад

For sure!

@carloshenriquezimmer7543 2 месяца назад

One thing about the splinters is that it is a very cramped space inside a ship of that era. It is full of stuff, like the cannons, the rigging, metal fittings; not only the wood would be shattered, but everything would be trown around when hit by a cannonball, and those would fly in a small space full of people. I have never seen anyone try to replicate this, it is always a single pannel of timbers and a body analog (a gel block or a pig). It is never impressive, or accurate. Maybe if you try to make a simulated ship's gundeck, with a witness target behind, it would be a better visualization.

@MultiSkyman1 2 месяца назад

Leave the cannon ball stuck in the tree! It will be like those Civil War "War Logs" you see in museums.

@TheCannoneer 2 месяца назад

We did! Someone will find our range in 200 years and be very confused if a battle happened there haha.

@MultiSkyman1 2 месяца назад

@@TheCannoneer Exactly!!!!

@brentmoody3461 2 месяца назад

Great Tshirt. Emotional support MG.... hahahah nice.

@TheCannoneer 2 месяца назад

Thanks!

@DinJaevel 2 месяца назад

Safety squint was mandatory on deck on the USS Philadelphia.

@TheCannoneer 2 месяца назад

Hahaha Ive never heard that before but I love it. That’s how some folks weld! 🤣😂

@AircreteHarry Месяц назад

Looks like fun!

@TheCannoneer Месяц назад

Always fun when a cannon is involved!

@jacobwilbert1018 2 месяца назад

This was epic man, never saw your channel before. Im in 👍

@TheCannoneer 2 месяца назад

Thank you! Much appreciated!

@user-km2mo1yg2t 13 дней назад

it would be cool to see the bar and chain shot against ropes and spars there intended targets

@TheCannoneer 13 дней назад

It’s on the list!!

@nibbler305 2 месяца назад

Sick cannon dude.

@TheCannoneer 2 месяца назад

Thank you!

@littlehills739 2 месяца назад

A caltrop (also known as caltrap, galtrop, cheval trap, galthrap, galtrap, calthrop, jackrock or crow's foot) is an area denial weapon made up of two or more sharp nails or spines arranged in such a manner that one of them always points upward from a stable base (for example, a tetrahedron). could u load up with minni caltrops to see if you could stop an oncoming charge :)

@TheCannoneer 2 месяца назад

Hahaha I’ve actually got some of those somewhere! We have to be careful about pointy things because our ranges have animals so nothing that can hurt their feet. I’ve got a range we can shoot them at though! I like it!

@mattjohnson1775 2 месяца назад

Man l love anything to do with canons. I know its sounds lame but when l was 13 and 14 to keep me out of trouble l was kind of made to go watch my dads friend shoot his canons at cival war reenactments and l got totally addicted to the canons and l started shooting them. He had 2 like your with a little bit bigger barrels and he was in charge of all canons at these reanactments and we would go to Fort Morgan Nd Fort Gains that guarded Mobile Bay and we got to shoot their huge canons that are attacthed to the fort walls. And l actually got to shoot them and its like a huge honor because they dont let just anyone shoot those except that 1 guy so anyway your lucky as fk having your own canon. Thats so awesome man.

@TheCannoneer 2 месяца назад

That’s also pretty cool! I’d have loved to shoot those actual historical cannons. It sounds like you had a fun time and thanks for tuning in!

@mattjohnson1775 2 месяца назад

@@TheCannoneer Thanks. Love your channels buddy.

@Hammerback972 2 месяца назад

2nd videi ive watched of this cannon, and im gonna say my answer is a resounding NO. It may change the balls course, no... It may make a larger round into a smaller deformed round and send pieces of wood through any unfortunate person using the sticks for cover. I wouldnt be comfortable behind a red oak a foot thick personally.

@Hammerback972 2 месяца назад

Be interesting to set a camera up within a few feet of the path of the projectile to hear the sound of that mass going by at "birth certificate revoking speeds". 😊

@TheCannoneer 2 месяца назад

There’s a few videos where you can hear them whistle!

@Hammerback972 2 месяца назад

Appreciate your attention given to the comment section. Very rare to see nowadays. Appreciate it! Ive been binge watching your content since last evening. You're very skilled with that unit! Thanks again!

@kmorris180 2 месяца назад

Ahh, shrapnel the gift that keeps giving. I wonder how many died from infection after being hit by it.

@TheCannoneer 2 месяца назад

I think I’d rather just eat the cannonball than deal with the splinter infection at that time!

@kmorris180 2 месяца назад

@TheCannoneer Yup, as an artilleryman in reenactments of the War of Northern Aggression, we talk a lot about injuries from the different projectiles. Some things, such as grapeshot, can leave ghastly wounds, allowing for a lingering death.

@bt1959 2 месяца назад

I wonder what the difference in a wet ship vs a dry ship side would be?

@TheCannoneer 2 месяца назад

I’ll add that to the list! I’d assume they might be a bit more resilient when they are wet but we will find out!

@TamasMateffy 2 месяца назад

Wet-less friction while passing through.

@infofoolygun 2 месяца назад

trees r living too ,dont shoot em

@TheCannoneer 2 месяца назад

Very true.

@ClassicallyNamed 2 месяца назад

Ballistics are fun to watch.. ugh on the rest. It's odd.

@jomorken4853 2 месяца назад

Can you make some rigging and go at it with chainshot. Maube make a whole piece of a boatlike 2m long with justa hull, mast and some sails and ropes

@TheCannoneer 2 месяца назад

For sure! That’s on the list! I’ve just gotta make more chain shot and redesign the barshot a bit. That’s going to be a fun one!

@jomorken4853 2 месяца назад

@@TheCannoneer Frtom what I've seen in museums, the barshots are longer. I know your cannon is a smaller version, but thry to extend the bars and make them stronger, they were quite effective for certain stuff. We also need you to learn how to tie a traditional grapeshot, because I wanna know how. I Helped build a pirate ship once for LARP. So just ask for shortcuts and ideas.

@jomorken4853 2 месяца назад

@@TheCannoneer Also I think having a lot of ammo is crucial. Can you borrow more cannons from friends? Make it a co-op video

@jomorken4853 2 месяца назад

I'd love to see some sort of simultaed broadside. Also try the waterline shot, where it bounces

@violakrone8429 2 месяца назад

Poor tree

@TheCannoneer 2 месяца назад

We walked by it yesterday and said the same thing. Someone’s going to find it and all the rest of the cannonballs at our range in 200 years and assume a battle took place there.

@Epicgamercool-iz4sl Месяц назад

How much are the cannon balls?

@TheCannoneer Месяц назад

It depends on what we’re shooting. Lead is pretty cheap maybe $1 or a bit less but the stone is about $4-$5 a piece depending on where I can find them!

@littlehills739 2 месяца назад

can u please make a car tyre tunnel say 2m -3 meter / for you yanks thats 1 and 1/2 humans long :) for cannon suppressor

@TheCannoneer 2 месяца назад

Hahaha for sure!