Spanish Culverins of the XVI Century
Gentlemen---In reading your most interesting posts, I gather that what we call a "culverin" is termed in Spanish a "culebrina", and if so, these "culebrinas" (based on the Olesa Munido page posted by Midelburgo) were made in a range of sizes, small as well as large. I mention this because the books on artillery I have here all describe a culverin as a big gun; but a particular episode of 1590 concerning a Spanish military action in present-day New Mexico seems to preclude the possibility that the culverins involved were big, heavy pieces. So the specific question is: in Spanish military parlance of the late XVI Century, a "culebrina" could be as small as a falcon, correct?
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