16th century rocket cat used in warfare

A 16th century artillery master who worked for German princes and fought against the armies of the Ottoman Empire, Franz Helm, advised readers of a Heidelberg University manuscript who wanted to capture an enemy’s castle to “obtain a cat from that place” and bind to the back of the cat “a small sack like …

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