Touch hole
A touch hole is a small hole through which the propellant charge of a cannon or muzzleloading gun is ignited. In small arms, the flash from a charge of priming held in the flash pan is enough to ignite the charge within. In artillery, priming powder, a fuse, squib, or friction igniter is inserted into the touch hole to ensure ignition of the charge.
The powder in the touch hole was lit either with a slow match, a linstock or a type of flintlock mechanism that was known as a gunlock.
Spiking the guns
Spiking a gun was a method of temporarily disabling a cannon by hammering a barbed steel spike into the touch-hole; this could be removed only with great difficulty. If a cannon was in danger of being captured by the enemy, its crew would spike the gun to prevent it from being used against them. Captured guns would be spiked if they could not be hauled away and the gun's recapture seemed likely.
If a special spike was unavailable, spiking could be done by driving a Bayonet into the touch-hole and breaking it off, to leave the blade's tip embedded. However, Count Friedrich Wilhelm von Bismarck, in his Lectures on the Tactics of Cavalry, recommended that every cavalry soldier should carry the equipment needed to spike guns if an encounter with enemy artillery was expected. Guns could also be rendered useless by burning their wooden carriages or blowing off their trunnions.
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Without your touch, I've been lost without the things I love.
Without your kiss, I've been dreaming of the things I miss.
Your eyes, your mouth, your lips, your touch;
Your eyes, your mouth, your face, your touch;
Who am I, (Who am I)
I'm not to tell, (I'm not to tell)
Of what will be (of what will be)
No one knows (Still)
Who am I (I need to know)
I'm not to tell (What time itself)
What will be, well (will really show)
Let it be.
Each day we miss;
I remember times I used to kiss
Your mouth, your eyes, your face, your touch
But who am I (Who am I)
I'm not to tell (I'm not to tell)
Of what will be, well (of what would be)
No one knows (Still)
Who am I (I need to know)
I'm not to tell (What time itself)
Of what will be, well (will really show)
Let it be
(Still, I need to know
What time itself will really show
Still, I need to know
What time itself will really show)
And I say
Who am I (Who am I)
I'm not to tell (I'm not to tell)
Of what will be, well (of what will be)
No one knows (Still)
Who am I (I need to know)
I'm not to tell (What time itself)
What will be, well (will really show)
Let it be
Who am I (Who am I)
I'm not to tell (I'm not to tell)
Of what will be, well (of what will be)
No one knows (Still)
Who am I (I need to know)
I'm not to tell (What time itself)
What will be; well (will really show)
Let it be
Your mouth, your eyes, your face, your touch
Your touch
Your touch
Your touch
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