Maharaja Ranjit Singh sent a large cannon named Zamzama.

Ahmad Shah Durrani returned to Kabul leaving his forces consolidated themselves inside the garrisons of Lahore where they founded the Zamzama cannon with the assistance of Mughal Metalsmiths.

The Zamzama in front of the Museum, also known as " Kim's Gun " from its appearance in Rudyard Kipling's novel Kim ( novel ) | Kim.

* Vent: A thin tube on the near end of the cannon connecting the explosive charge inside with an ignition source outside and often filled with a length of fuse ; always located near the breech.

On the top of the vent on the outside of the cannon is a flat circular space called the vent field where the charge is lit.

The barracks for the garrison were placed outside and a large guard house ( known as the Block House ) containing troops and six cannon was placed right at the centre.

Federal and Confederate troops passed through the town several times, and cannon emplacements can still be seen just outside Glade Spring on the road to Saltville.

As the ceremonial cannon on Lycabettus Hill fired the Royal salute, huge crowds gathered outside the Palace shouting what they thought should rightfully be the newborn prince's name: " Constantine ".

Moore established a defensive position on hills outside the town, while being guarded by the 15th Hussars, and was fatally wounded at the Battle of Corunna, being " struck in his left breast and shoulder by a cannon shot, which broke his ribs, his arm, lacerated his shoulder and the whole of his left side and lungs ".

People outside, disapproving how they have been treated, have secretly constructed a laser cannon to even the score.

Fire trucks deliver water with much the same force and volume of force as a water cannon, and have even been used in riot control situations, but are rarely referred to as water cannon outside this context.

It was the first European-style fort constructed outside of Europe designed to resist cannon fire.

A cannon outside the fortress.

The Marines then continued sending the guards ' periodic " All is well " call to guards outside of the fort while repositioned the fort's 18-pound cannon to cover parts of the city and harbor from which reinforcements might arrive.

Garoni goes outside with the gang and kills a sniper with a 6-shot 20mm cannon.

The cannon was left outside Foog's Gate at Edinburgh Castle.

The Anderson home was heavily damaged by cannon and rifle projectiles, with many of the holes still visible both inside and outside the house ( which is now a museum ) today.

British sailors pose with a captured cannon outside the sultan's palace

Initially these cannon were positioned on the hill to the east, the site of an old Roman fort, but the distance was too great and the only damage incurred was to a half moon battery outside the main gate, which is overgrown but still visible.

Satire | Satirical illustration of 1661 showing ' Gyant Desborough ' brandishing a cannon outside Oliver Cromwell's palace

* The cannon rotates to the outside of the knee so it appears twisted in its axis relative to knee.

* Hocks deviate toward each other, with the cannon and fetlock to the outside of the hocks when the horse is viewed from the side.

Passive ring-shaped ( enceinte ) fortifications of the Medieval era proved vulnerable to damage or destruction by cannon fire, when it could be directed from outside against a perpendicular masonry wall.

The lower walls were more vulnerable to being stormed, and the protection that the earthen banking provided against direct fire failed if the attackers could occupy the slope on the outside of the ditch and mount an attacking cannon there.

The bronze cannon are arranged outside the museum, on the Arsenal grounds.

This cannon, displayed at the Gonzales Memorial Museum, may have precipitated the battle.

A number of " gags " designed by Bloody Stupid Johnson, including a custard pie-throwing machine and a giant daisy-shaped water cannon, were originally placed by the door also ; however, due to a series of fatalities, they are no longer in use and are now in the Guild Museum alongside the original Dog With No Nose ( it's shaggy ), and the cranium of one of the Three Men Who Went Into A Pub.

In the Pink House Museum one of its cannon holes can be found and part of a storage room of the Royal Treasury's warehouse.

He implemented the code of civil rights, introduced the regular Army, built a cannon foundry, improved the existing schools and founded new ones, as well as established National Library and National Museum.

He saves Homer by getting fired out of a cannon, and grabbing Homer with his huge feet slipped under Homer's arm-pits, just before the float crashes into the Museum of Swordfish.

The British developed their own SPAAGs throughout the war mounting multiple machine guns and light cannon on various tank and armoured car chassis and by 1943, the Crusader AA tanks, which mounted the Bofors 40 mm gun or two-three Oerlikon 20 mm cannon.

The types of cannon artillery are generally distinguished by the velocity at which they fire projectiles.

Sakharov then tested a MK-driven " plasma cannon " where a small aluminium ring was vaporized by huge eddy currents into a stable, self-confined toroidal plasmoid and was accelerated to 100 km / s.

The term armed boat, used primarily by English speaking naval forces, referred to any boat carrying either a cannon or armed occupants, such as marines.

Then those small compound bodies that are least removed from the impetus of the atoms are set in motion by the impact of their invisible blows and in turn cannon against slightly larger bodies.

The fort was garrisoned by French soldiers and armed with at least four cannon and two heavy mortars.

MIT retaliated in April 2006, when students posing as the Howe & Ser ( Howitzer ) Moving Company stole the 130-year-old, 1. 7-ton Fleming House cannon and moved it over 3000 miles to their campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts for their 2006 Campus Preview Weekend, repeating a similar prank performed by nearby Harvey Mudd College in 1986.

During the 17th century cavalry in Europe lost most of its armor, ineffective against the muskets and cannon which were coming into use, and by the mid-19th century armor had mainly fallen into disuse, although some regiments retained a small thickened cuirass that offered protection against lances and sabres and some protection against shot.

In the modern era, the term cannon has fallen out of common usage, replaced by " guns " or " artillery " if not a more specific term such as " mortar " or " howitzer ".

On the African continent, the cannon was first used by the Somali Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi of the Adal Sultanate in his conquest of Ethiopia in 1529.

This is followed by a layer of wadding ( often nothing more than paper ), and then the cannon ball itself.

The invention of the cannon, driven by gunpowder, was first developed in China.

The practice of rifling — casting spiraling lines inside the cannon's barrel — was applied to artillery more frequently by 1855, as it gave cannon projectiles gyroscopic stability, which improved their accuracy.

One of the earliest rifled cannon was the breech-loading Armstrong Gun — also invented by William George Armstrong — which boasted significantly improved range, accuracy, and power than earlier weapons.

The cynical attitude toward recruited infantry in the face of ever more powerful field artillery is the source of the term cannon fodder, first used by François-René de Chateaubriand, in 1814 ; however, the concept of regarding soldiers as nothing more than " food for powder " was mentioned by William Shakespeare as early as 1598, in Henry IV, Part 1.

Pumpkin chunking is another widely popularized use, in which people compete to see who can launch a pumpkin the farthest by mechanical means ( although the world record is held by a pneumatic air cannon ).

As a small child, Fritz was awakened each morning by the firing of a cannon.

Hand cannon being fired from a stand, " Belli Fortis ", manuscript, by Konrad Kyeser, 1400

The original predecessor of all firearms, the Chinese fire lance and European hand cannon were loaded with gunpowder and the shot ( initially lead shot, later replaced by cast iron ) through the muzzle, while a fuse was placed at the rear.

A dejected procession, numbering some 4, 000 according to most of the sources, such as Hills or Jackson filed out of the Land Port with Queen Isabella's banner at their head, and led by the Spanish Governor, Diego de Salinas, the Spanish garrison, with their three brass cannon, the religious orders, the city council and all those inhabitants who did not wish to take the oath of allegiance to Charles III as asked by the terms of surrender.

The Great Turkish Bombard | Sultani Cannon, a very heavy bronze muzzle-loading cannon of type used by Ottoman Empire in the Fall of Constantinople | conquest of Constantinople, in 1453.