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Complete This Phrase / Fill In The Blank(s) - 1795/1796 / Re: Episode #0453
« on: July 26, 2013, 10:30:04 PM »from listening to books roughly from that period, I know that ammunition was usually called "balls".
True. Though it's not very often that anyone ever orders someone to put their ammunition up. But in this case, and principally because it's such a great play on words, it works really well.