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oct 5, 1795 - 'A WHIFF OF GRAPESHOT'

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"A whiff of grapeshot" was a saying that general Bonaparte was describing how he scattered the crowd with one shot of the cannon in Paris.

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oct 5, 1795
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~ 230 years ago