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Top vehicles of the United States Marine Corps
the
Russian
officer
Leonid Gobyato
is credited with having invented man-portable
mine mortars
?
in order to demonstrate the versatility of the
Holman Projector
(pictured)
, a
British
anti-aircraft
mortar
, a trial was staged in front of
Prime Minister
Winston Churchill
using a number of
beer bottles
as ammunition?
boundary
surveyor
Joseph Smith Harris
climbed a ship's mast to direct
mortars
during the
Civil War
Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip
?
a
carcass
was a kind of
artillery
shell
fired from a
mortar
or
cannon
to burn down enemy
defences
?
Facts on topics related to Mortar (weapon)
Artillery
18th century
French
artilleries
were the most efficient at
cannon operation
(pictured)
, capable of firing 150 shots per
cannon
daily during
siege
?
English cannon
batteries
(
pictured
) required
artillery
crews of twelve per
gun
?
Fort Greble
was built so fast that there was no time to construct proper earthen
magazines
for
artillery
, and three years later
company quarters
had to be demolished to add them?
French-designed cannons
, manufactured in both the
North
and the
South
, were the primary
artillery
weapons of the
American Civil War
?
a
carcass
was a kind of
artillery
shell
fired from a
mortar
or
cannon
to burn down enemy
defences
?
during the
English Civil War
,
Royalist
soldiers fired
artillery
at
Leicester
from
Raw Dykes
Roman
earthwork?
during the
American Civil War, Pittsburgh
made the world's first 21-inch
caliber
gun
?
on the last day of the
Battle of Hill 170
in January 1945, an estimated 700
Japanese
artillery
shells landed on the hill?
the
Château de Saint-Cloud
near
Paris
burned to the ground on
13 October
1870
after being hit by French
artillery
fire during the
siege of Paris
?
the
City of London Yeomanry
was a regiment of the British
Territorial Army
which served at various times as a
cavalry
,
infantry
,
artillery
,
anti-aircraft
, and
armoured
unit, and now forms a
squadron
of the
Royal Corps of Signals
?
Shell (projectile)
a
carcass
was a kind of
artillery
shell
fired from a
mortar
or
cannon
to burn down enemy
defences
?
Division (military)
John Fuller
, who led a
Union Army
division
at the
Battle of Atlanta
and participated in
Sherman's March to the Sea
, was one of the few foreign-born generals in the
American Civil War
?
although heavily outnumbered, two
UN
battalions
—one
Australian
and one
Canadian
—halted an entire
Chinese
division
at the
Battle of Kapyong
(22–25 April 1951) during the
Korean War
?
in June 1944, during the
invasion of Elba
the
Free French
assault
division
included 200
mules
?
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