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HMS Cicero, ex-Empire Arquebus. Empire Arquebus was a 7,177 GRT landing ship laid down as Cape St Vincent for United States War Shipping Administration and completed in 1944 by Consolidated Steel Corporation, Wilmington as Empire Arquebus. Managed by Donaldson, Brothers and Black Ltd., To Royal Navy in 1944 and renamed HMS Cicero.
After the Normandy Landings, Empire Arquebus was laid up in the Clyde. [7] Empire Arquebus later served in the Pacific. [8] In January 1945 she was requisitioned by the Admiralty and commissioned as HMS Cicero, under which name she served out the remainder of the war, [4] although it would appear that she remained named as Empire Arquebus.
4 May 1900 15 July 1901 21 July 1902 September 1903 Sold for scrap 26 July 1919 at Bizerte. Sarbacane: 4 May 1900 1 October 1901 12 March 1903 December 1903 Deleted 1 October 1920; still for sale at Toulon in January 1922. Arquebuse: 1 August 1900 1900 15 November 1902 May 1903 Sold for scrap 1 March 1921 at Bizerte. Arbalète: 1 August 1900
In June 1686, Langtan led a force of 3,000 Qing soldiers to lay siege on Albazin, which was held by approximately 450 men led by Alexei Tolbuzin. [4] According to Russians sources, the Qing had a "great might of guns" and even more powerful cannons than the Hongyipao, called "miraculous-power general cannons". More than a hundred Russians died ...
The Handboogdoelen civic guard was armed with longbows, while the Voetboogdoelen civic guard wielded crossbows and the Kloveniersdoelen civic guard used an early type of musket, the arquebus. The Kloveniersdoelen was the oldest of the three. [1] Amsterdam's militia guilds were formed in the Middle Ages to defend the city against attack.
[4] When the First World War began in August 1914, Arquebus was assigned to the 3rd Destroyer Flotilla (3 e escadrille de torpilleurs) of the 2nd Light Squadron (2 e escadre légère) [5] based at Cherbourg. [4] She was one of five destroyers that escorted the predreadnought battleship Charlemagne from Bizerte, French Tunisia, to Toulon in ...
A culverin was initially an ancestor of the hand-held arquebus, but the term was later used to describe a type of medieval and Renaissance cannon. The word is derived from the antiquated "culuering" and the French couleuvrine (from couleuvre "grass snake", following Latin: colubrinus, lit. 'of the nature of a snake'). [1]
The Jixiao Xinshu (simplified Chinese: 纪效新书; traditional Chinese: 紀效新書; pinyin: Jìxiào xīnshū) or New Treatise on Military Efficiency [1] is a military manual written during the 1560s and 1580s by the Ming dynasty general Qi Jiguang. Its primary significance is in advocating for a combined arms approach to warfare using five ...