New Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site

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The gun captain fires the piece utilizing a linstock. A linstock a long forked stick designed to hold a lighted piece of slow match is used to fire the artillery piece. Slow match is a special type of rope impregnated with a nitrate compound that allows it to burn at a steady rate.
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