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Caltrop – a simple but effective weapon against cavalry horses or pneumatic-tires cars. small and shaped like a child’s jacks toy – but with four points instead of six – so that, however tossed, one sharp point will be straight up
Story on Caltrop So it had come to this. Again. A flintlock held by the trembling blacksmith pointed at the intruder’s forehead. The half-silvered remnants of what might have once been the mi…