|| From Google:
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|| Virtually every sailing ship in the 1700-1800s had cannons for protection.
||
||Somebody already posted here in this thread, but since you appearently
||didn't read it, here it is again:
||http://www.snopes.com/language/stories/brass.htm
||
||And for those that don't bother to follow links. It is FALSE!!!

If it's on the internet, how can it be false??? G

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