Senin, 18 September 2017

Simple. Cheap. Deadly.

Nasty little coal bombs. In January 1864, Confederate President Jefferson Davis sat at his desk in the Richmond White House, admiring a new secret weapon. What resembled nothing more than a lump of coal was in fact a miniature torpedo, or mine. It had started out as a hollow iron casting, about 4 inches to …

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