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The Greeks and Romans both made extensive use of artillery for shooting large arrows, bolts or spherical stones or metal balls. Occasionally they also used ranged early thermal weapons. There was heavy siege artillery, but more mobile and lighter field artillery was already known and used in pitched battles, especially in Roman imperial period.
The history of cannon spans several hundred years from the 12th century to modern times. The cannon first appeared in China sometime during the 12th and 13th centuries. It was most likely developed in parallel or as an evolution of an earlier gunpowder weapon called the fire lance. The result was a projectile weapon in the shape of a cylinder ...
The Siege and Destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans Under the Command of Titus, A.D. 70, by David Roberts (1850), shows the city burning. Early thermal weapons, which used heat or burning action to destroy or damage enemy personnel, fortifications or territories, were employed in warfare during the classical and medieval periods (approximately the 8th century BC until the mid-16th century AD).
Roman wall and the west corner tower (the Multangular Tower) of the Roman legionary fort at York, with medieval additions above. A telltale layer of red Roman bricks can be seen at about head height. The Romans called the tribes in the region around York the Brigantes and the Parisii. York may have been on the border between these two tribes.
Mary, Queen of Scots (8 December 1542 – 8 February 1587), also known as Mary Stuart [3] or Mary I of Scotland, [4] was Queen of Scotland from 14 December 1542 until her forced abdication in 1567. The only surviving legitimate child of James V of Scotland , Mary was six days old when her father died and she inherited the throne.
The name of the sister ship of the Mary Rose, the Peter Pomegranate, is believed to have been named in honour of Saint Peter, and the badge of the Queen Catharine of Aragon, a pomegranate. According to Childs, Loades and Marsden, the two ships, which were built around the same time, were named in honour of the king and queen, respectively.
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The name kartouwe is of Dutch origin, [2] a corruption of Latin quartana [3] (quarter cannon). [2] In the Holy Roman Empire the gun was called Kartaune in German or cartouwe in contemporary Latin usage , [ 4 ] in the Swedish Empire Kartow , [ 4 ] spelling variants include kartouw , kartouve , [ 5 ] cartow , [ 2 ] cartaun , [ 2 ] courtaun , [ 2 ...