Mortar (weapon): Facts

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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)

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?

a carcass was a kind of artillery shell fired from a mortar or cannon to burn down enemy defences?

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?