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The Gunpowder plot involved 36 barrels of gunpowder in an undercroft beneath the House of Lords. Just how much damage would the explosion have done if it had gone off? Would it have accomplished its goal? Destroyed all of Parliament? Surrounding buildings?

by /u/Notmiefault in /r/AskHistorians

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