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The Mughal Emperor Babur is popularly credited with introducing artillery to India, in the Battle of Panipat in 1526, where he decisively used gunpowder firearms and field artillery to defeat the much larger army of Ibrahim Lodhi, the ruler of the Delhi Sultanate, thus not just laying the foundation of the Mughal Empire but also setting a precedent for all future battles in the subcontinent.
The Mughal artillery's main use in battle was to counter hostile war elephants which were common in warfare on the Indian subcontinent. But although emperor Akbar personally used to design gun carriages to improve the accuracy of his cannons, the Mughal artillery was most effective by scaring the opponent's elephants off the battlefield. The ...
The Mughal army employed heavy cannons, light artillery, grenades, rockets, [6] [19]: 133 [20] and heavy mortar among other weapons. [21] Heavy cannons were very expensive and heavy for transportation, and had to be dragged by elephants and oxen into the battlefield. The Mughal naval forces were named the Amla-e-Nawara.
1 Field Regiment (India) 2 Medium Regiment (India) 2nd Lancers (Gardner's Horse) 2nd Punjab Regiment; 3rd Madras Regiment; 6th Lancers (Watson's Horse) 7th Light Cavalry; 8th Punjab Regiment; 9th Horse (Deccan Horse) 10th Baluch Regiment; 11th Cavalry (Frontier Force) 11th Sikh Regiment; 12th Frontier Force Regiment; 14th Horse (Scinde Horse ...
Army 20 cm rocket: Japanese 200 mm artillery rocket; BL 4.5 inch: British 114 mm gun; BL 5.5 inch: British 140 mm gun; BL 7.2 inch: British 183 mm howitzer; BL 60 pounder: British 127 mm gun; Bofors 37 mm: Swedish 37 mm light antitank gun; Bofors 40 mm gun: Swedish 40 mm antiaircraft gun; Bofors Model 29: Swedish 75 mm antiaircraft gun
This list of regiments of the Royal Artillery covers the period from 1938, when the RA adopted the term 'regiment' rather than 'brigade' for a lieutenant-colonel's command comprising two or more batteries, to 1947 when all RA regiments were renumbered in a single sequence.
Mughal warfare had always been based upon heavy artillery for sieges, heavy cavalry for offensive operations and light cavalry for skirmishing and raids. [19] To control a region, the Mughals always sought to occupy a strategic fortress in some region, which would serve as a nodal point from which the Mughal army would emerge to take on any ...
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