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Hemp-rope-armored train "Hairy Mary", Second Boer War

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Hemp-rope-armored train "Hairy Mary", Second Boer War

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I speculate that hemp was super cheap and super fibrous, so it would make a decent armor akin to lining the train with sandbags.
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  And abundant.
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    Some even say it grows like a weed

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