On this day in 1795, a 26-year-old artillery officer by the name of Napoleon Bonaparte famously orders his gunners to give counter-revolutionaries advancing through the streets of Paris a “whiff of grapeshot.” pic.twitter.com/Cpr8xhsWc1
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