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Loose Cannons & Red Herrings
By the late nineteenth century, these uses of great and small became obsolete, but to go great guns continued to allude to the loudness, forcefulness, and large size of long-ago cannons and still means to `proceed with considerable momentum, to go full steam ahead, at full bore.
go great guns The word great used to mean `big,' and great guns referred to cannons and other large firearms, as opposed to “small guns” or musket rifles.
Although swords, bows, and arrows remained the mainstays of warfare, suddenly matchlocks, muskets, and cannons made their appearance.
The courtyard itself contains the 18 cannons, including eight taken from Vienna, which Napoléon ordered fired on great occasions — including the birth of his son in 1811.