Could it have been named for one Lieutenant Colonel Paixhan of the French artillery, who developed a way to throw heavy shells long distances at shallow angles by using a long cannon, and submitted such a plan in 1822?
Those longer, larger calibre cannons were named after him, apparently.
Those longer, larger calibre cannons were named after him, apparently.
It figures the dead guy would be hot.
"I do not attempt to defend my remark on the score of profundity; I did not
think it profound myself; but I have noticed that the effect of our
speeches is not always proportionate with their importance in our own
eyes; and if I had shot Mr. D. through and through with a Paixhan bomb, or
knocked him in the head with the "Poets and Poetry of America," he could hardly have been more discomfited than when I addressed him with those simple words: "Dammit, what are you about?- don't you hear? -- the gentleman says 'ahem!'"
think it profound myself; but I have noticed that the effect of our
speeches is not always proportionate with their importance in our own
eyes; and if I had shot Mr. D. through and through with a Paixhan bomb, or
knocked him in the head with the "Poets and Poetry of America," he could hardly have been more discomfited than when I addressed him with those simple words: "Dammit, what are you about?- don't you hear? -- the gentleman says 'ahem!'"
From the works of Edgar Allen Poe.
It was a term used in the civil war for a large howitzer.
I hearted American History. I stayed sober during those classes.
You took the words right out of my mouth bard...
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