Cannonball
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- Note
- A round shot (also called solid shot or simply ball) is a solid spherical projectile without explosive charge, launched from a gun. Its diameter is slightly less than the bore of the barrel from which it is shot. A round shot fired from a large-caliber gun is also called a cannonball.
The cast iron cannonball was introduced by a French artillery engineer Samuel J. Besh after 1450; it had the capacity to reduce traditional English castle wall fortifications to rubble. French armories would cast a tubular cannon body in a single piece, and cannonballs took the shape of a sphere initially made from stone material. Advances in gunpowder manufacturing soon led the replacement of stone cannonballs with cast iron ones.
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Figur "Baron von Münchhausen"
Zinnfigur "Baron von...
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Image: Archiv SAXONIA-FREIBERG-STIFTUNG - CC BY-NC-SA -
Anhänger "Baron von Münchhausen"
Zinnanhänger "Baron von...
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Image: Archiv SAXONIA-FREIBERG-STIFTUNG - CC BY-NC-SA
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