They were specialized weapons that needed extra training and skill to use. Early explosive grenades were much larger and heavier than modern grenades, since their black powder filler was not as powerful as modern explosives, so they needed to have more explosive filler as well as thicker containment in order to be effective.

A typical grenade from the Napoleonic era weighed about 3-4 pounds. In comparison, a Vietnam War-era M67 grenade weighs a little less than 1 lb. Now ask yourself, how far can you throw a 3-4 pound ball? Obviously, the range of these things weren't too good in the hands of regular soldiers, and the ones than were trained to use them (grenadiers) tended to be the biggest and strongest recruits.

This was on land anyways. In the naval setting, they were much more widely used since in ship boarding action, range wasn't as much an issue, and grenades were excellent weapons for clearing defenders below decks.

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no im pretty sure that they called them grenades too

It’s not so much then recording the exodus, but there would be noticeable loss of labor and extra food resources for no longer owned spaces. The argument is if 10,000 slaves just got up and left there would be ripple effects through the local civilization.

I'd expect them to. They'd be actively trying to make up the sudden labor shortfall, and even back then it meant a lot of business details recorded.

TBF, I wouldn't expect transgenwrational slave owners to accurately record a mass exodus of slaves... It's bad for business/your way of life to write that stuff down. You can't hide something like, just down play it, and that's what it appears they did.

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Honestly I know nothing about this but you’ve intrigued me to go learn about it. Thanks 😊 🤙🏻

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https://youtu.be/-6Wu0Q7x5D0

Sone details here and there are wrong but I would say 90% of it is correct

It's worse than that. What little evidence we shows reveals a nomadic tribe of Hebrews that waged war against the Egyptians. This is thought to have been the inspiration of Moses, since it's the closest thing we have to the story of exodus.

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It’s only in French according to the author’s comment in 2010

Nah. In the ancient world, if something happened, a god did it. The question on everybody's mind was "what one"? I think the point stands.

It's not an affirmative point, mind you. Just enough to level out the burden of proof a bit.

Despite being Christian, I'm always a bit skeptical of any biblical scholar but this man reads like a genuine, curious nerd with education and patience to back it and turn it into something more. I like it. More people like this, please. I don't have the patience or intelligence to do it myself.

IIRC, modern hand grenades were tried in the US Civil War, but the impact fuses worked poorly and it was common that the targets of hand grenades to throw them back. I imagine the same thing happened with black powder grenades with wicks.

Given how many of the grenades were made from poor quality cast iron, I'd guess that the thrower had a lot more risk--you can't really throw something that heavy as far. Makes using them in open areas even less attractive.

What a well written article. Langlois is relentless, he reminds me of legendary polymaths in his approach and work ethic. He also plays Spector basses!

They were. Just not called Grenades. They were gun power balls, wrapped with straws, paper, rocks, nails with a fuse.

Exactly, wherever there is money there is always going to be forgeries. Egyptomania in the Victorian era for example drive the creation of plenty of fakes. Sometimes it wasn't even about the money, take the Piltdown Man for example, for Dawson it was just about being famous.