GRAPESHOT, Scattershot, Chainshot, Bar-shot.

Grapeshot is a mass of metal balls or slugs packed tightly into a canvass bag. Used both on land and at sea - the assembled pack looked something like a bunch of grapes - hence the name. - When fired, the balls spread-out conically like a giant shot-gun blast. 

 Grapeshot is devastatingly effective when used against massed troops at shorter ranges. - Scattershot is improvised using scrap metal such as chain links, nails, rocks, and broken glass - but is less effective due to variable and unreliable ballistics of the differing sizes, shapes and weights.

'Black Bart' the pirate was killed by a discharge of grapeshot fired by HMS Swallow in 1722. - In the 1798 Irish Revolution - British forces used grapeshot to kill 1,200 of the routed Irish rebels, most armed only with pikes, at the Battle Of Vinegar Hill, Ennescorthy, County Wexford.

Chainshot: Designed specifically for use against ships rigging and sails - chainshot tumbled through the air after leaving the guns muzzle with the chain extended.

Bar-shot was used for the same purpose.

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