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  2. Wiard rifle - Wikipedia

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    Wiard also designed a rifled steel version of the Dahlgren boat howitzer (a 12-pounder (5.44 kg) weapon with a 3.4 in (86 mm) bore), among other gun types. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] Further, Wiard unsuccessfully attempted to develop a 15 in (381 mm) rifled gun for the US Navy and proposed a 20 in (510 mm) gun.

  3. Field artillery in the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    Nine-pounders were universally gone well before the Mexican War, and only scant references exist to any Civil War use of the weapons. The 12-pounder field gun appeared in a series of models mirroring the 6-pounder, but in far less numbers. At least one Federal battery, the 13th Indiana, took the 12-pounder field gun into service early in the war.

  4. 20-pounder Parrott rifle - Wikipedia

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    [12] Rifling allowed elongated/heavier rounds to be fired. For example, smoothbore cannons of the same 3.67 caliber as the 20-pounder Parrott fired only 6 pound round shot. For example the M1841 6-pounder field gun. [13] The 20-pounder Parrott rifle was mounted on the 1,175 lb (533 kg) carriage for the M1841 12-pounder field gun. [14]

  5. RML 9-pounder 8 and 6 cwt guns - Wikipedia

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    An 1871 diagram showing the gun and carriage of the RML 9-pounder 8 cwt field gun. The 9-pounder 8 cwt Rifled Muzzle Loader was the field gun selected by the Royal Artillery in 1871 to replace the more sophisticated RBL 12 pounder 8 cwt Armstrong gun, which had acquired a reputation for unreliability. [2]

  6. M1857 12-pounder Napoleon - Wikipedia

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    In the period before the Civil War, a U.S. Army light artillery battery was organized with four M1841 6-pounder field guns and two M1841 12-pounder howitzers. [1] The field gun fired solid iron cannon balls in a flat trajectory to smash its targets [2] while the howitzer was designed to lob hollow shells into massed formations or fortifications. [3]

  7. Blakely rifle - Wikipedia

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    Blakely rifle or Blakely gun is a series of rifled muzzle-loading cannon designed by British army officer Captain Theophilus Alexander Blakely in the 1850s and 1860s. [1] [2] Blakely was a pioneer in the banding and rifling of cannon but the British army declined to use Blakely's design. [3]

  8. Round shot - Wikipedia

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    Round shot was made in early times from dressed stone, referred to as gunstone (Middle English: gunneston), but by the 17th century, from iron. It was used as the most accurate projectile that could be fired by a smoothbore cannon, used to batter the wooden hulls of opposing ships, fortifications, or fixed emplacements, and as a long-range anti ...

  9. Driggs-Schroeder - Wikipedia

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    A 12-pounder gun on a limited recoil carriage for naval landing forces was submitted to the US Army Ordnance Department in fiscal year 1895; it was not adopted. [17] [20] An Army 4-inch/40 caliber Driggs-Schroeder rapid-fire gun also existed, [21] probably the same as one of several Navy guns of this type.

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