The Age of Gunpowder Empires, 1450-1800 |
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... walls , the new guns weighed a lot less than the great bombards and became genuinely mobile . Mounted on wheels , a gun six to eight feet long , capable of firing an iron ball of eight to ten inches in diameter , could travel wherever a ...
... walls , the new guns weighed a lot less than the great bombards and became genuinely mobile . Mounted on wheels , a gun six to eight feet long , capable of firing an iron ball of eight to ten inches in diameter , could travel wherever a ...
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... walls with a sloping layer of earth to absorb cannon fire , while obstructing access to such revetted walls by carving out ditches in front of them , just as the Pisans had done . In a sense , the new design turned ordinary ...
... walls with a sloping layer of earth to absorb cannon fire , while obstructing access to such revetted walls by carving out ditches in front of them , just as the Pisans had done . In a sense , the new design turned ordinary ...
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... walls of the city that became his capital thereafter . In addition , the sultan equipped his slave corps of foot soldiers , the famous Janissaries , with handguns from the time that such weapons became effective in the field . Indeed ...
... walls of the city that became his capital thereafter . In addition , the sultan equipped his slave corps of foot soldiers , the famous Janissaries , with handguns from the time that such weapons became effective in the field . Indeed ...
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