Professor de la Paz asks Mannie to assure that Luna adopts a flag consisting of a brass cannon over a red bar on a black background with stars, " a symbol for all fools who are so impractical as to think they can fight City Hall ".

I have answered the demand with a cannon shot, and our flag still waves proudly from the walls.

A dual cannon salute was fired for each flag, and each Commissioner gave a short speech.

Today, with the progress in communications, this flag indicates the obligation of the other Naval vessels to pay the relevant honours ( Manning the rails, firing cannon salute, attention, etc.

When the Mexican troops raised a blood-red flag signifying no quarter, Travis responded with a blast from the Alamo's largest cannon.

Sir Ellis ' coffin, draped in a Trinidad and Tobago flag, was set atop a cannon and pulled by a Military vehicle.

Royal Charles, with only thirty cannon aboard and abandoned by her skeleton crew when they saw the Matthias burn, was then captured by the Irishman Thomas Tobiasz, the flag captain of Vice-Admiral Johan de Liefde, and carried off to the Netherlands despite an unfavourable tide.

::* Losses: Union One soldier was killed and five others wounded by a premature explosion of a cannon in firing a salute to the United States flag.

During the next ten days, then festival follows a hectic schedule of traditional orchestral drum beating ( Chendamelam ), cannon shots from the foot of the flag masts ( Kathinavedi ), Mass every morning and evening prayers along with other local events all in the premises of the church.

The historic flag pole and cannon are still present at the site, near the old headquarters building and across from the Post Exchange barber shop.

The flag being so very large, mother was obliged to obtain permission from the proprietors of Claggetts brewery which was in our neighborhood, to spread it out in their malt house ; and I remember seeing my mother down on the floor, placing the stars: after the completion of the flag, she superintended the topping of it, having it fastened in the most secure manner to prevent its being torn away by ( cannon ) balls: the wisdom of her precaution was shown during the engagement: many shots piercing it, but it still remained firm to the staff.

They hoisted a makeshift Boer flag from its lightning conductor and loaded a cannon with of blasting powder.

1635 Three cannon, one of which belonged to Deputy Governor Bilingham, were carried down on lighters and installed at the Castle and the garrison, made up of two men weekly from each of the six towns to be paid from the treasury of the colony, fired these at incoming vessels until the ship recognized the fortification by raising her flag.

A large flag, a few cannon, and a small Grand Army of the Republic monument remain to testify to this period of the hill's history.

As a symbol of defiance, the Texians had fashioned a flag containing the phrase " come and take it " along with a black star and an image of the cannon which they had received six years earlier from Mexican officials — this was the same message that was sent to the Mexican government when they told the Texans that they had to return their cannon — failure to comply with the Mexican's original demands led to the failed attempt by the Mexican military to forcefully take back the cannon.

The fountain had brimmed over, the cannon were wet, the soldiers' monument glistened.

Overall, Yellow succeeded beyond what most people had expected, despite the fact that the Allies had 4, 000 armoured vehicles and the Germans 2, 200, and the Allied tanks were often superior in armour and caliber of cannon.

This time the defenders were able to hold off the attack with cannon fire, but after a month of siege they ran out of ammunition.

At this point, a water cannon, tear gas and rubber bullets were used to disperse the rioters.

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.

First used in China, cannon were among the earliest forms of gunpowder artillery, and over time replaced siege engines — among other forms of aging weaponry — on the battlefield.

The first cannon in Europe were probably used in Iberia in the 11 and 12th centuries, and English cannon were first deployed in the Hundred Years ' War, at the Battle of Crécy, in 1346.

After the Middle Ages most large cannon were abandoned in favor of greater numbers of lighter, more maneuverable pieces.

Field artillery cannon in Europe and the Americas were initially made most often of bronze, though later forms were constructed of cast iron and eventually steel.

The older and more-stable forms of cannon were muzzle-loading as opposed to breech-loading — in order to be used they had to have their ordnance packed down the bore through the muzzle rather than inserted through the breech.

Any large, smoothbore, muzzle-loading gun — used before the advent of breech-loading, rifled guns — may be referred to as a cannon, though once standardized names were assigned to different sized cannons, the term specifically referred to a gun designed to fire a shot, as opposed to a demi-cannon-, culverin-, or demi-culverin-.

It has been disputed at which point flame-projecting cannon were abandoned in favor of missile-projecting ones, as words meaning either incendiary or explosive are commonly translated as gunpowder.

Despite both forces having similar numbers, the Japanese were easily defeated due to the Ming cannon.

Realizing that iron was more difficult to pierce with breech-loaded cannon, Armstrong designed rifled muzzle-loading guns, which proved successful ; The Times reported: " even the fondest believers in the invulnerability of our present ironclads were obliged to confess that against such artillery, at such ranges, their plates and sides were almost as penetrable as wooden ships.

Among them were sabot rounds, hollow-charge projectiles, and proximity fuses, all of which increased the effectiveness of cannon against specific target.

Given their speed and maneuverability, clippers frequently mounted cannon or carronades and were used for piracy, privateering, smuggling, or interdiction service.

Air-to-air missiles largely replaced guns and rockets in the early 1960s since both were believed unusable at the speeds being attained, however the Vietnam War showed that guns still had a role to play and most fighters built since then are fitted with cannon ( typically between 20 and 30 mm in caliber ) as an adjunct to missiles.

Until the mid-19th century, projectiles and propellant ( black powder ) were generally separate components used in a muzzle-loading firearm such as a rifle, pistol, or cannon.

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.

There were two reasons for this: prerecording provided Groucho with time to fish around for funny exchanges and any intervening dead spots to be edited out ; and secondly to protect the network, since Groucho was a notorious loose cannon and known to say almost anything.

" The cannon, rediscovered in 1898, eventually inspired a name change for the growing community.

The experimental Horten Ho 229 flying wing series had an unusual upward-firing armament proposed for testing on the V4 night fighter prototype, photoelectric fired vertically mounted rockets or recoilless guns instead of cannon armament inspired by the Jagdfaust system's design.

The MG 213 never reached production, but inspired the DEFA, the very similar British ADEN cannon, and the smaller American M39 cannon.

The same design inspired the British ADEN cannon and the French DEFA, but American designers chose a smaller 20 mm round to increase the weapon's rate of fire and muzzle velocity at the expense of hitting power.

The FF series inspired many 20mm cannon used in World War II, including the Hispano-Suiza HS. 404 ( adopted by the French, British and U. S. forces ), the German MG FF, and the Japanese Type 99 cannon.

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.

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

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.