Petard,Thomas Simes,1757-1780,bomb-like device

Title: Petard, a brass pot fixed upon a strong square plank, which has an iron hook to fix it against a gate or palisades
Related Names:
Simes, Thomas, fl. 1757-1780.
Date Created/Published: [1776]
Summary: Print shows a bomb-like device used to blow apart doors or gates.
Notes:
Title from item.
Caption continues: This pot is filled with powder; which, when fixed, breaks every thing about it; and thereby makes an opening to enter the place.
Illus. in: A new military, historical, and explanatory dictionary ... / Thomas Simes. Philadelphia : Sold by Humphreys, Bell, and Aitken, 1776.
Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1975, no. 912.
Subjects:
Arms & armament--1770-1780.
Military art & science--1770-1780.
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
Book illustrations--1770-1780.
Woodcuts--1770-1780.
Bookmark /2004673525/
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