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List of muzzle-loading guns

Index List of muzzle-loading guns

Muzzle-loading guns (as opposed to muzzle-loading mortars and howitzers) are an early type of artillery, (often field artillery, but naval artillery and siege artillery were other types of muzzleloading artillery), used before, and even for some time after, breech-loading cannon became common. [1]

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Artillery

Artillery is a class of large military weapons built to fire munitions far beyond the range and power of infantry's small arms.

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Blakely rifle

A Blakely rifle is one of a series of rifled muzzle-loading cannon designed by British army officer Captain Theophilus Alexander Blakely.

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Bombard (weapon)

The bombard is a cannon or mortar used throughout the Middle Ages and the early modern period.

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Breech-loading weapon

A breech-loading gun is a firearm in which the cartridge or shell is inserted or loaded into a chamber integral to the rear portion of a barrel.

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Bronze

Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12% tin and often with the addition of other metals (such as aluminium, manganese, nickel or zinc) and sometimes non-metals or metalloids such as arsenic, phosphorus or silicon.

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Caliber

In guns, particularly firearms, caliber or calibre is the approximate internal diameter of the gun barrel, or the diameter of the projectile it shoots.

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Cannon

A cannon (plural: cannon or cannons) is a type of gun classified as artillery that launches a projectile using propellant.

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Canon de 12 de Vallière

The Canon de 12 de Vallière was a type of cannon designed by French officer Florent-Jean de Vallière (1667–1759), Director-General of the Battalions and Schools of the Artillery.

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Canon de 24 de Vallière

The Canon de 24 de Vallière was a type of cannon designed by the French officer Florent-Jean de Vallière (1667–1759), Director-General of the Battalions and Schools of the Artillery.

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Canon de 4 de Vallière

The Canon de 4 de Vallière was a type of cannon designed by the French officer Florent-Jean de Vallière (1667-1759), Director-General of the Battalions and Schools of the Artillery.

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Canon de 6 système An XI

The Canon de 6 système An XI was a French cannon and part of the Year XI system of artillery.

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Canon obusier de 12

The Canon obusier de 12 (French:"Canon obusier de campagne de 12 livres, modèle 1853", USA: 12-pounder Napoleon), also known as the "Canon de l’Empereur" was a type of canon-obusier (literally "Shell-gun cannon", "gun-howitzer") developed by France in 1853.

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Cast iron

Cast iron is a group of iron-carbon alloys with a carbon content greater than 2%.

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Chongtong

The Chongtong was the term for Joseon-era gunnery.

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Culverin

A culverin was a relatively simple ancestor of the musket, and later a medieval cannon, adapted for use by the French as "couleuvrine" (from couleuvre "grass snake") in the 15th century, and later adapted for naval use by the English in the late 16th century.

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Demi-cannon

The demi-cannon was a medium-sized cannon, similar to but slightly larger than a culverin and smaller than a regular 42 lb (19 kg) cannon, developed in the early 17th century.

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Demi-culverin

The demi-culverin was a medium cannon similar to but slightly larger than a saker and smaller than a regular culverin developed in the late 16th century.

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Falconet (cannon)

The falconet or falcon was a light cannon developed in the late 15th century.

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Field artillery

Field artillery is a category of mobile artillery used to support armies in the field.

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Galloper gun

The galloper carriage was not used in the Americas during the F&I war nor in the Revolutionary war.

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Grasshopper cannon

Grasshopper was the nickname for a cannon used by the British in the late 18th century as a light battalion gun to support infantry.

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Gunpowder

Gunpowder, also known as black powder to distinguish it from modern smokeless powder, is the earliest known chemical explosive.

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Hand cannon

The hand cannon (Chinese: 手銃), also known as the gonne or handgonne, is the first true firearm and the successor of the fire lance.

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Hongyipao

Hongyipao (hồng di pháo) was the Chinese name for European style muzzle-loading culverins introduced to China and Korea from the Portuguese colony of Macau and by the Hendrick Hamel expedition to Joseon in the early 17th century.

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Howitzer

A howitzer is a type of artillery piece characterized by a relatively short barrel and the use of comparatively small propellant charges to propel projectiles over relatively high trajectories, with a steep angle of descent.

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Jean-Jacques Keller

Jean-Jacques Keller (1635–1700) and his brother Jean-Balthazar Keller (1638–1702) were Swiss gunfounders from Zürich, in the service of France.

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La Hitte system

The La Hitte system (French: "Système La Hitte"), named after the French general Ducos, Count de La Hitte, was an artillery system designed in March 1858 to implement rifled muzzle-loading guns in the French Army.

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Metallurgy

Metallurgy is a domain of materials science and engineering that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements, their inter-metallic compounds, and their mixtures, which are called alloys.

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Minion (cannon)

The minion (from the French word for cute) was a type of small cannon used during the Tudor period and into the late 17th century.

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ML 8 inch shell gun

The ML 8 inch shell guns of 50 cwt, 54 cwt and 65 cwt were the three variants of British cast iron smoothbore muzzle-loading guns designed specifically to fire the new generation of exploding shells pioneered in the early-mid nineteenth century by Henri-Joseph Paixhans.

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Mortar (weapon)

A mortar is usually a simple, lightweight, man portable, muzzle-loaded weapon, consisting of a smooth-bore metal tube fixed to a base plate (to absorb recoil) with a lightweight bipod mount.

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Muzzle-loading rifle

A muzzle-loading rifle is a muzzle-loaded small arm or artillery piece that has a rifled barrel rather than a smoothbore.

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Muzzleloader

A muzzleloader is any firearm into which the projectile and usually the propellant charge is loaded from the muzzle of the gun (i.e., from the forward, open end of the gun's barrel).

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Naval artillery

Naval artillery is artillery mounted on a warship, originally used only for naval warfare, later also for naval gunfire support against targets on land, and for anti-aircraft use.

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Obusier de 15 cm Valée

The Obusier de 15 cm Valée, was a French Artillery 6-inches howitzer belonging to the Valée system (French:"Système Valée") of artillery developed between 1825 and 1831 by the French artillery officer Sylvain Charles Valée.

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Obusier de 6 pouces Gribeauval

The Obusier de 6 pouces Gribeauval or 6-inch howitzer was a French artillery piece and part of a system established by Jean Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval.

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Parrott rifle

The Parrott rifle was a type of muzzle-loading rifled artillery weapon used extensively in the American Civil War.

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Rifling

In firearms, rifling is the helical groove pattern that is machined into the internal (bore) surface of a gun's barrel, for the purpose of exerting torque and thus imparting a spin to a projectile around its longitudinal axis during shooting.

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RML 10 inch 18 ton gun

The RML 10 inch guns Mk I - Mk II were large rifled muzzle-loading guns designed for British battleships and monitors in the 1860s to 1880s.

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RML 11 inch 25 ton gun

RML 11 inch 25 ton guns were large rifled muzzle-loading guns used as primary armament on British battleships and for coastal defence.

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RML 12 inch 25 ton gun

The RML 12 inch 25 ton guns were large rifled muzzle-loading guns of mid-late 1800s used as primary armament on British ironclad turret battleships and coastal monitors, and also ashore for coast defence.

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RML 12 inch 35 ton gun

RML 12 inch 35 ton guns were large rifled muzzle-loading guns used as primary armament on British battleships of the 1870s.

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RML 12.5 inch 38 ton gun

The RML 12.5 inch guns were large rifled muzzle-loading guns designed for British battleships and were also employed for coast defence.

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RML 16-inch 80-ton gun

RML 16-inch 80-ton guns were large rifled muzzle-loading guns intended to give the largest British battleships parity with the large guns being mounted by Italian and French ships in the Mediterranean Sea in the 1870s.

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RML 2.5 inch Mountain Gun

The Ordnance RML 2.5 inch mountain gun was a British rifled muzzle-loading mountain gun of the late 19th century designed to be broken down into four loads for carrying by man or mule.

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RML 6.3-inch howitzer

The RML 6.3-inch howitzer was a British rifled muzzle-loading "siege" or "position" howitzer/mortar proposed in 1874 and finally introduced in 1878 as a lighter version of the successful 8-inch howitzer that could be carried by the existing 40-pounder gun carriage.

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RML 64 pounder 64 cwt gun

The RML 64 pounder 64 cwt gun was a Rifled, Muzzle Loading (RML) naval, field or fortification artillery gun manufactured in England in the 19th century, which fired a projectile weighing approximately.

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RML 64 pounder 71 cwt gun

The RML 64 pounder 71 cwt guns (converted) were British rifled muzzle-loading guns converted from obsolete smoothbore 8-inch 65 cwt shell guns in the 1860s-1870s.

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RML 7 inch gun

The RML 7 inch guns were various designs of medium-sized rifled muzzle-loading guns used to arm small to medium-sized British warships in the late 19th century, and some were used ashore for coast defence.

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RML 7 pounder Mountain Gun

The Ordnance RML 7 pounder Mk IV "Steel Gun" was a rifled muzzle-loading mountain gun primarily used by the Indian Army.

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RML 8 inch 9 ton gun

The British RML 8 inch 9 ton guns Mark I - Mark III were medium rifled muzzle-loading guns used to arm smaller ironclad warships and coast defence batteries in the later 19th century.

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RML 9 inch 12 ton gun

The RML 9 inch guns Mark I – Mark VIMark I – Mark VI.

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Round shot

A round shot (or solid shot, or a cannonball, or simply ball) is a solid projectile without explosive charge, fired from a cannon.

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Saker (cannon)

The saker was a medium cannon, slightly smaller than a culverin, developed during the early 16th century and often used by the English.

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Shell (projectile)

A shell is a payload-carrying projectile that, as opposed to shot, contains an explosive or other filling, though modern usage sometimes includes large solid projectiles properly termed shot.

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Siege engine

A siege engine is a device that is designed to break or circumvent heavy castle doors, thick city walls and other fortifications in siege warfare.

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Smoothbore

A smoothbore weapon is one that has a barrel without rifling.

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Somerset cannon

The Somerset cannon was a British cannon designed within the Admiralty and manufactured by Armstrong's.

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Wiard rifle

The Wiard rifle is a semi-steel light artillery piece invented by Norman Wiard.

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Wrought iron

puddled iron, a form of wrought iron Wrought iron is an iron alloy with a very low carbon (less than 0.08%) content in contrast to cast iron (2.1% to 4%).

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100-ton gun

The 100-ton gun (also known as the Armstrong 100-ton gun) was a rifled muzzle-loading (RML) gun made by Elswick Ordnance Company, the armaments division of the British manufacturing company Armstrong Whitworth, owned by William Armstrong.

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68-pounder gun

The 68-pounder cannon was an artillery piece designed and used by the British Armed Forces in the mid-19th century.

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68-Pounder Lancaster gun

68-Pounder Lancaster guns were a British rifled muzzle-loading cannon of the 1850s that fired a 68-pound shell.

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70-pounder Whitworth naval gun

The 70-pounder Whitworth naval gun was designed by Joseph Whitworth during the 1860s.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_muzzle-loading_guns

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