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The Puckle gun is a tripod-mounted, single-barreled flintlock weapon fitted with a manually operated [5] revolving cylinder; Puckle advertised its main application as an anti-boarding gun for use on ships. The barrel was 3 feet (0.91 m) long with a bore of 1.25 inches (32 mm).
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A rifle is a firearm designed to be fired from the shoulder, with a barrel that has a helical groove or pattern of grooves ("rifling") cut into the barrel walls.The raised areas of the rifling are called "lands," which make contact with the projectile (for small arms usage, called a bullet), imparting spin around an axis corresponding to the orientation of the weapon.
French cased duelling pistols by Nicolas Noël Boutet.Single shot, flintlock, rifled, .58 caliber, blued steel, Versailles, 1794–1797. Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto. A duelling pistol is a type of pistol that was manufactured in matching pairs to be used in a duel, when duels were customary.
In the winter of 1775–1776, Henry Knox directed the transportation of the guns of Ticonderoga to Boston. The guns were placed upon Dorchester Heights overlooking the besieged city and the British ships in the harbor, prompting the British to evacuate their troops and Loyalist supporters from the city in March 1776. [54]
The howitzer (/ ˈ h aʊ. ɪ t s ər /) is an artillery weapon that falls between a cannon (or field gun) and a mortar.It is capable of both low angle fire like a field gun and high angle fire like a mortar, given the distinction between low and high angle fire breaks at 45 degrees or 1600 mils (NATO).