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I can bring a change
I can bring the thunder and the rain
Everything around me
Everything will rearrange
I'm coming back like a hurricane
I'm gonna take you higher
On a cloud of silver haze
I wanna take you higher
Away, away, away
Their effect was similar to chain shot. When fired this weapon makes a spinning rotation, shot being used at short range to cut through the sails, shrouds, and any other rigging of an enemy target ship or to kill any sailor in its path.
At the public library but pretending I'm on the battlements.
[ID: a photo taken through an internal wall's window at the Harold Washington Library Center, showing roped off cannons beyond and, past them, more windows. The effect is of a quiet moment in a southwestern fort of some kind, preparing to repel an invading army.]
Looking down on the Maumee River from Riverside Park in Perrysburg: which features two replica cannons from USS Constitution, made in 1906 and installed in the park in 1934.
It's an interesting decision to import some War of 1812 history to a place that already has plenty of it. It's an incredible experience to be standing so close to the Maumee, thinking about the battles of Fort Meigs and Fort Miamis—even Fort Wayne, Indiana is on the Maumee River! It's the largest watershed in all the Great Lakes.