#SALTPETER MILITARY SERIES#

#SALTPETER MILITARY SERIES#

the second series was turned over to the State Library around 1910. Saltpeter War ( Spanish: Guerra del Salitre) may refer to: Saltpeter War (Mexico), 14801510.

Many of them were leased from nearby states, then were brought to Mammoth Cave to shovel, haul, and sift the cave dirt, working long hours in poor conditions. The second series (chiefly covering 1790-1820) continues the first series, but also includes older documents which were omitted from the first series. Most of the workers were enslaved African American men. Saltpetre mining was not easy work, and not many people were willing to work in the cave in the mine. A solution of water and calcium nitrate would then be pumped to the surface where it was combined with materials such as wood ash, and sometimes even ox blood, to create the saltpetre. domestic production of saltpeter could neither meet the military. Derived from soil enriched with dung and. Chemically a mystery at the time, saltpeters dual use for growing crops and blowing. National security depended on control of this organic material - that had both mystical and mineral properties. The mining process involved extracting the calcium nitrate using water and large square vats to filter the cave dirt. Historiography of the saltpeter trade comprises both cultural studies and aspects of military history and history of technology (e.g., Barnum 2003 Buchanan 2006 Kunnas 2007 Á goston 2008 Cressy. This is the story of saltpeter, the vital but mysterious substance craved by governments from the Tudors to the Victorians as an 'inestimable treasure.'. Demand for gunpowder was at an all-time high during the war, as the importation of gunpowder had become very difficult due to the British blockade of many eastern sea ports. Mining saltpetre from the cave was extremely profitable in the early 1800’s, and became even more so with the start of the War of 1812. Saltpetre is an principal ingredient in black gunpowder. The guns themselves were probably small, and supplies of saltpeter were limited and expensive. Calcium nitrate is a mineral that can be mixed with other high potassium materials to create potassium nitrate, or saltpetre, as it is more commonly known. Kinney, probably the Nashville river pilot, for seventeen kegs of powder.9 Throughout 1861 the Tennessee Military Board spent considerable energy to acquire. Thousands of years of occupation by bats who deposited guano in the soil of Mammoth Cave and other area caves made the cave dirt rich with a compound called calcium nitrate. It emphasizes the cave's value for saltpetre production. The earliest known map of Mammoth Cave, called the Eye Draught map, dates prior to 1809.

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