Armamento - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 15:21:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Armamento - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Five rifles recovered from the siege of Rosas (Catalonia, Spain) https://historylab.es/five-rifles-recovered-from-the-siege-of-rosas-catalonia-spain/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=five-rifles-recovered-from-the-siege-of-rosas-catalonia-spain Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:32:18 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/cinco-fusiles-recuperados-del-sitio-de-rosas-cataluna-espana/ Guns recovered between 2008 and 2010 from the warship Triunfante, sunk in 1795 in the Gulf of Rosas (Catalonia, Spain)

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]]> During the siege of the town of Rosas (Catalonia, Spain) in 1795, the Spanish naval force supported the troops ashore in an attempt to wear down the French rearguard. When the warship Triunfante was lost on 5 January, a 68-gun ship carrying a large number of rifles that failed to deliver to the troops besieged in Rosas.
Between 2008 and 2010, a major project by the CASC (Archaeology Museum of Catalonia) succeeded in excavating and investigating the ship Triumphant, which sank in the gulf that night. One of the most valuable elements were the five flintlock guns recovered by the archaeologists. The finds also indicate that the vast majority of the ammunition collected – around 80% – is 17 adarmes per pound, with the remainder being 21 adarmes per pound.
Identifying the remains of the rifles found, at the beginning of 1795, when the Triumphant was sunk, both the army and the navy used two types of 17-gauge rifles, the Model 1757 and the Model 1789. The main difference between them was the type of key used: while the Model 1757 used a “French-style” key, the Model 1789 was a “Catalan-style” key, difficult to clean, but safer and more resistant, in all other respects the two types of rifle are identical. The problem in the case of the Triumphant is the poor preservation of the iron of the keys and the barrels of the guns, but fortunately the E rifle appeared with a real spring that does not correspond to the French key, but identifies it as a Catalan key model.

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]]> GreedFall https://historylab.es/greedfall/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=greedfall Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:28:22 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/greedfall/ Role-playing game set in the colonisation of 17th century Europe

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]]> GreedFall invites the player to discover a distant, fictional island in which the 17th century European Baroque aesthetic is recreated with great skill, encouraging the player to discover its landscape through exploration and diplomacy. Although there are supernatural elements in its colonialist plot, the historical representation of the period weapons and armour featured in the game, as well as the pursuit of verisimilitude in the architecture of the different cities visited during the game, are particularly noteworthy.
During the numerous conversations in the game, and doing justice to the role-playing genre to which the game belongs, the characters often tend to be overexposed, expressing all kinds of facts about the historical background or the customs of certain personalities.
Other topics such as the political and social consequences of the plagues, the struggle of reason against faith among the citizens and the spirituality of this chronology are also dealt with, and the cultural and political conflicts between the different peoples of the island, each with their own cultural traits and costumes, are treated with particular success.

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