Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Forgotten Weapons" channel.

  1. They used "cartridges" before that. A bullet sewn into a pouch with its powder was called a "cartridge," if I'm not mistaken. You bit off the bullet, took a pinch of powder for the pan (your primer) and poured the rest down the barrel. Then you spit the bullet down the barrel. This is still a major breakthrough, to have primer, charge, and bullet all together in a brass cartridge, which I came here to see, but all I got to see was the gun. But the term "cartridge" was already in use before what we NOW think of as cartridges were invented. Yes, Napoleon was dismissive of many innovations. But he had his MAIN innovation of universal conscription, and his combined-arms know-how, with artillery, cavalry, infantry and skirmishers worked just fine in set-piece battles.
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