What is the strangest improvised gun ammunition you know of?
Short answerA doubtful Napoleonic-era story concerns part of a cooking ladle fired from a cannon.
NotesCannon crews could improvise shrapnel from available objects. Clarke recalls a story of a British soldier struck by part of a cooking ladle during the Napoleonic Wars, but explicitly doubts whether the incident is reliable. The general practice of improvising ammunition is firmer than this particular recollection.