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Things did not always work out according to plan at such executions. At a mass execution at Firozpur in 1857, there was an order that blank cartridges should be used, but some guns were loaded with grapeshot instead. Several of the spectators facing the cannons were hit by the grapeshot and some had to have limbs amputated as a result.
Russian artist Vasily Vereshchagin painted Blowing from Guns in British India in 1884, after his second trip to British India in 1882. A proponent of Realism and Orientalism in art, Vereshchagin had extensive experience in painting Orientalist scenes for Western and Russian audiences; though his work contained many realist aspects, it also presented life in the Asia as exaggeratedly exotic ...
Most of the prisoners were hanged within direct view of the well at the Bibighar and buried in shallow ditches by the roadside. Others were shot or bayonetted, whilst some were also tied across cannons that were then fired, an execution method initially used by the rebels and the earlier Indian powers, such as the Marathas and the Mughals. It ...
We turn so many people’s livelihoods into a [90-minute film] that people watch, and then say, ‘I think I’ll go and make a toasted sandwich now.’ It’s crazy!”
The nature of cannon operation often depended on the size of the cannon and whether they were breech-loading or muzzle-loading. English cannons of the late 14th century became mobile, while the largest cannon (such as the heavy siege cannon of the Ottoman Turks or the Jaivana cannon of India) required huge crews to transport and operate them.
Demi-cannons were capable of firing these heavy metal balls with such force, that they could penetrate more than a meter of solid oak, from a distance of 90 m (300 ft), and could dismast even the largest ships at close range. [115] Full cannons fired a 42 lb (19 kg) shot, but were discontinued by the 18th century, as they were too unwieldy.
The Dum Dum Arsenal was a British military facility located near the town of Dum Dum in modern West Bengal, India. [1]The arsenal was at the centre of the Indian Rebellion of 1857, caused in part by rumours that the paper cartridges for their muzzle-loading rifles, which they were expected to bite open, were greased with pig lard (a problem for Muslims) or cow fat (a problem for Hindus).
Seven people were shot and two have died – since named as father and son Lorenzo Smith and Shawn Jackson – in gunfire that rang out on Tuesday at a high school graduation ceremony held on ...