This served also as a wad, after being emptied of its contents, and was pushed home with a ramrod.

A store of German Bibles in Pennsylvania fell into the hands of the soldiers at a moment when paper was a crying need, and the pages of these Bibles were used for wads.
The artillery of the time seems feeble compared with the monster weapons of death which we know in our own age.

Yet it was an important factor in the war.

It is probable that before the war not a single cannon had been made in the colonies.

From the outset Washington was hampered for lack of artillery.