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Portfires.
A cardboard like tube containing a compisition that would burn much like a modern road flare. Kept on hand in the limber chest in the event that primers or linstock would not function, especially during heavy rain. Would also imagine that they would provide illumination so that the cannoneers could work the guns during the night.

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