Does anybody have any recommendations for Canadian political history (or Australian, for that matter)? Civilisation VI has introduced me to Wilfrid Laurier and I’d like to know more about the country and that whole era generally, but in the UK Canadian history is totally absent from any mainstream bookshops.

Similarly, does anyone know any good political histories for late c19th European countries, esp. France Germany and Italy? I’m talking about proper high politics, prime ministers and elections etc

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Literally did everywhere you listed, tho could go back. No photos online to the immense scale of Petra any justice, I walked around the site for 8+ hours and could have done another whole Day

The most friendly locals of anywhere I've traveled (30+ countries). Great weather, incredible history, good food and super easy to get around. I rented a car and it wasn't to expensive and the roads where better then at home (UK) tho the is a lack of signs for speed bumps, that are just black lumps of tarmac.

Ps. Did see a local on a sport bike on the outskirts of Amman when coming back from Jerash. Tho didn't see any rental motorbikes

No, last year with the Army.

Yeah no matter what you do some dweeb is gonna come at you with the " well akshually"

Who was responsible for popularising the usage of Hangul?

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This is quite a hard question to answer, as different people came up with out across the globe. I usually think of it as the Indians, because it was used for actual math and things like that.

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In what way does it do that? Seems to say unless you’ve got evidence, you’ve got nothing?

I agree. I lived and worked there for a couple of years, and has visited several times since, and will go back again.

Not only is it some amazing geography and history and snorkling, the people are great as well. I've never been to a country (and I've been in 30+ countries) which made me feel so adopted. If I for some reason ever choose to leave Sweden, Jordan will be the place I go to.

My dream is to travel Jordan and revisit all the sites on a motorcycle, and, of course, King's Highway would be a must. I don't know about the legal status of motorcycles there now, though. When I lived there, only government and companies could have motorcycles (an old leftover from the civil war).

Sadly, they miss a lot of tourists. People tend to see the middle east as one place, and don't understand that Jordan is calm, even if there are conflicts in other parts of the middle east. I was in Petra a couple of years after the WTC incident, and there was almost no tourists there. I think I saw less than 10 tourists in an entire day, and before you would see thousands.

I thoroughly recommend visiting. Amman, Petra, Karak, Jerash, King's Highway, Wadi Rum, Dead Sea, Aqaba. You can see all that in 2 weeks, and it is so much worth it.

You didn't happen to go to Jordan in 2014 with the USMC did you?

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>Grenades were never 3-4lbs, what you are talking about is mortar/cannon shells.

I'm pretty sure a mortar or howitzer shell during the Napoleonic Wars weighed much heavier than 3-4 pounds. A shell for a 6 inch howitzer of the French Gribeauval system would had fired a shell that weighed at least 20 pounds. For a large 12 inch siege mortar, it would had been around 150 pounds.

I’m so happy, I’m traveling right now in Jordan along the Kings highway and I’m currently in Madaba! Can confirm that it is really an awesome and extremely welcoming place!

Waiting to see when she appears in the anime

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A wonderful country to visit (although easier as a guy given the culture). I've driven this road and greatly enjoyed it. One of my favourite experiences.

Kerak castle is fun to explore as well

BTW an early of cannon had a short barrel & was slung from an A-frame, it was used as a door breaching device. Fuses as you said were sometimes unreliable which among other failure modes could sometimes kill the cannoneer.

This device was called a petard, hence the phrase, Being hoist by one's own petard.

Jordan is such a cool and historic place. I’m glad the military took me there, and I’m hopeful I can go back someday to do more sightseeing. One of the things that stuck out to me was seeing some random Roman-style ruins on the side of the highway. Not a tourist spot, no signs saying what it was, just an ancient settlement lost to time.

Also they were used.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CxlRJsQ7p2k&t=105s

(Yes the battle from this movie is 17th century, but they were used in similar ways earlier too.)

The big problem is black powder. That shit lights up like no one's business, and so in a musket line... They would be dangerous.

So they were really more of a sometimes weapon, especially when cannons breached a wall grenades would be used to help gain a foot hold in the breach. But the point remains people didn't walk around with them. They were provided when needed for a particular task (until they became reliable, and fit with the infantry doctrines being used ... ... Which took a while

Because cannons were much more reliable than hand thrown grenades.

Yep! That and mortars I believe