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The Dardanelles Gun or Great Bronze Gun [1] (Turkish: Şahi topu or simply Şahi) is a 15th-century siege cannon, specifically a super-sized bombard, which saw action in the 1807 Dardanelles operation. [2] It was built in 1464 by Ottoman military engineer Munir Ali and modelled after the Basilic, the bombard crafted by Orban that was used for ...
Date estimates on when artillery entered Ottoman service vary, as most of the early history on Ottoman artillery was written in the late 15th century, long after the actual battles. [1] One of the arguments is that the Ottomans used cannons in the Battle of Kosovo (1389) and Nukap (1396) and most certainly by the 1420s. [2]
The Dardanelles Gun is a similar super-sized cannon that was built in 1464 by the Turkish military engineer Munir Ali and modelled after the cannon built by Orban.. The Basilic, [1] or The Ottoman Cannon was a very large-calibre cannon designed by Orban, a cannon engineer, Saruca Usta and architect Muslihiddin Usta at a time when cannons were still new.
Nicolle, David (2000), Constantinople 1453: The End of Byzantium, Osprey Publishing, ISBN 1-84176-091-9; Philippides, Marios; Hanak, Walter K. (2 May 2017), The Siege and the Fall of Constantinople in 1453: Historiography, Topography, and Military Studies, Routledge, ISBN 978-1-317-01608-3
Used when the cannon has to be unloaded or dirt must be removed. [3] The lantern or ladle serves to carry the powder into the piece. It consists of a wooden box appropriated to the caliber of the piece for which it is intended with a length of a caliber and a half with its vent, and of a piece of copper nailed to the box at the height of a half ...
When faced with cannons and arquebuses wielded by the Ottomans they criticized them thus, "God curse the man who invented them, and God curse the man who fires on Muslims with them." [ 55 ] Insults were also levied against the Ottomans for having "brought with you this contrivance artfully devised by the Christians of Europe when they were ...
The second cannon was found on the battlefield itself and had been fired by the Spanish defenders. “I suspect that the area of the site where that cannon was stored was not overwhelmed by the ...
Map of Gunpowder empires Mughal Army artillerymen during the reign of Akbar. A mufti sprinkling cannon with rose water. The gunpowder empires, or Islamic gunpowder empires, is a collective term coined by Marshall G. S. Hodgson and William H. McNeill at the University of Chicago, referring to three early modern Muslim empires: the Ottoman Empire, Safavid Empire and the Mughal Empire, in the ...