heated shot
Heated shot is a artillery ammunition or cannonball.
Also recorded as hot shot · heated cannonball
heated shot
George S. Cook · File from The Photographic History of The Civil War in Ten Volumes: Volume One, The Opening Battles. The Review of Reviews Co., New York. 1911. p. 99. · Public domain
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- artillery ammunition · cannonball · incendiary weapon
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Heated projectile fired from a cannon
heated shot, Furnace used for making red-hot shot inside of Fort Moultrie. - NARA - 524999
Mathew Benjamin Brady · U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
Dry Tortugas National Park, the magazine and hot shot furnace (left) at Fort Jefferson, Garden Key, Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida, USA
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