From the picture caption.
The seven barrels were mounted 2-3-2. Once the trigger was pulled on Joseph Chambers' seven-barrel repeating swivel gun, the bullets would fly-- up to 217 of them. The projectiles were loaded one on top of another.
The discharge of the rounds closest to the muzzles would ignite the powder behind thye next projectiles, and so on until all rounds were fired.
Confusing to me, but imagine the carnage it could cause when used in up-close, side-by-side fighting.
--Brock-Perry
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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