Re: COLONIAL WEAPONS

On 31-Jan-02 at 02:40, K.H.Ranitzsch (KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de) wrote:

> How much Nitrate can you get that way ? Could a farm provide enough
for the
> gunpowder needed by the farmers ?
> How did, say, people in early America get their gunpowder ?
> 
> Not neccesarily doubting it, just curious.

They mined it from bat guano.