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  1. By two Sikh bodyguards in 1984. Modern strategies With the advent of, gunpowder , ranged assassination (via bombs or firearms) became possible. One of the
  2. Monitor retreated. This was because the captain of the Monitor was hit by, gunpowder ,in his eyes while looking through the pilothouse's peepholes, which caused
  3. Months without any human company. All he had brought with him was a musket, gunpowder , carpenter's tools, a knife, a Bible, some clothing and rope. Life on the
  4. Flank or attacking their commander-in-chief. From the 1550s onwards, the use of, gunpowder ,weapons solidified infantry's dominance of the battlefield and began to allow
  5. Is transported from our world to an alternate universe where the recipe for, gunpowder ,is a tightly held secret and saves a country that is about to be conquered by
  6. Fought. It is noted as the first battle in history won by small arms fire using, gunpowder , *1611 – Establishment of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santa Tomas
  7. Ready was to have of exposed explosive and each charge leaking small amounts of, gunpowder ,from the igniter bags. The gun crews had therefor packed the turret to the
  8. Galván of Other when, a Pennsylvania State Police officer, who knows how to make, gunpowder , is transported from our world to an alternate universe where the recipe for
  9. By the Venetians in the Korean War. The Parthenon, which was being used as a, gunpowder ,magazine, was hit by artillery fire and severely damaged. In subsequent years
  10. That could not be appealed. Besides holding a large cache of ammunition and, gunpowder , the Bastille had been known for holding political prisoners whose writings had
  11. Exceeding in length, and could weigh up to. Consequently, large amounts of, gunpowder ,were needed, to allow them to fire stone balls several hundred yards. By
  12. Gun in the 16th century. Medieval Europe In Europe, one of first mentions of, gunpowder ,use appears in a passage found in Roger Bacon's Opus Mails and Opus Terbium in
  13. Triple-wall fortifications, which were never to be breached until the coming of, gunpowder , Theodosius also founded a University near the Forum of Taurus, on 27 February
  14. In the size of the barrel was due to improvements in both iron technology and, gunpowder ,manufacture, while the development of grunions – projections at the side of
  15. Of the Hundred Years War that Joan of Arc participated in were fought with, gunpowder ,artillery. The army of Mehmet the Conqueror, which conquered Constantinople in
  16. French against the English at the Battle of Courcelles, in 1430,she faced heavy, gunpowder ,fortifications, and yet her troops prevailed in that battle. In addition, she
  17. To organize the Continental Army. Realizing his army's desperate shortage of, gunpowder , Washington asked for new sources. Arsenals were raided and some manufacturing
  18. With the Americans. The British supplied their native allies with muskets, gunpowder ,and advice, while Loyalists led raids against civilian settlements, especially
  19. Was lost. The cannons during this period were elongated, and the recipe for, gunpowder ,was improved to make it three times as powerful as before. These changes led to
  20. By the 10th century, it was used in cannons by 1290. From China, the use of, gunpowder ,spread to Japan, the Mongols, the Arab world, and Europe. Gunpowder was used by
  21. Saw as a technologically sophisticated culture, saying that Atlantes invented, gunpowder ,and the compass thousands of years before the rest of the world invented
  22. In the American south, the crossbow was used for hunting when firearms or, gunpowder ,were unavailable because of economic hardships or isolation. In Brazil the CIGS
  23. Ages – first gunpowder artillery The first documented record of artillery with, gunpowder ,propellant used on the battlefield was on January 28, 1132 when General Han
  24. As words meaning either incendiary or explosive are commonly translated as, gunpowder , The earliest known depiction of a gun is a sculpture from a cave in Sichuan
  25. Of their own. Crossbows were eventually replaced in warfare by more powerful, gunpowder ,weapons, although early guns had slower rates of fire and much worse accuracy
  26. Existed using compressed air and steam. The invention of the cannon, driven by, gunpowder , was first developed in China. Like small arms, cannon are a descendant of the
  27. Notable appearances in media A cannon is any piece of artillery that uses, gunpowder ,or other usually explosive-based propellants to launch a projectile. Cannon
  28. Known as moonstone). Granite quarrying only became reasonably productive when, gunpowder ,became available. The moor gave its name (Foreshore) to one of the medieval
  29. By the military pressure that it felt from the north. This included the use of, gunpowder ,weapons, which played a large role in the Song Dynasty naval victories against
  30. Constantinople in 1453,included both artillery and foot soldiers armed with, gunpowder ,weapons. The Ottomans brought to the siege sixty-nine guns in fifteen separate
  31. He used his musket to hunt goats and his knife to clean their carcasses. As his, gunpowder ,dwindled, he had to chase prey on foot. During one such chase he was badly
  32. The charges from their containers and removing the paper covering over the, gunpowder ,igniter charges. The effect of having eight loads at the ready was to have of
  33. Growth. The period saw major technological advances, including the adoption of, gunpowder ,and the astrolabe, the invention of spectacles, and greatly improved water
  34. Charges were stored two silk bags to a metal cylindrical container with a 16-oz, gunpowder , igniter charge which was covered with a thick paper wad, four charges being
  35. Industries of the day—ore testing and refining, metalworking,production of, gunpowder , ink, dyes,paints, cosmetics,leather tanning, ceramics,glass manufacture
  36. Burning slowing and producing mostly smoke. The first confirmed use of, gunpowder ,in Europe was the Moorish cannon, first used by the Andalusian's in the Iberian
  37. His 1341 poem, The Iron Cannon Affair, one of the first accounts of the use of, gunpowder ,artillery in China, Xian Zhang wrote that a cannonball fired from an erupt or
  38. Printing and movable type printing, the early lodestone and needle compass, gunpowder , toilet paper, early seismological detectors, matches,pound locks, the
  39. Manufacture of nitrocellulose (cellulose nitrate) which is used in smokeless, gunpowder ,and as the base material for celluloid used for photographic and movie films
  40. About 3 lakhs of coins in gold and silver,675 big guns, about 4750 mounds of, gunpowder ,in boxes,7828 shields,1000 odd ships, and 173 stores of rice. But, Mir Lumley
  41. Increased power in the artillery weapons of the time. Joan of Arc encountered, gunpowder ,weaponry several times. When she led the French against the English at the
  42. Wooden" battery-towers" took on a similar role as siege towers in the, gunpowder ,age—such as that used at siege of Kazan in 1552,which could hold ten
  43. In a speech that artillery was" the God of War ". High Middle Ages – first, gunpowder ,artillery The first documented record of artillery with gunpowder propellant
  44. Of Edward III, Richard II and other monarchs. Even when, on the invention of, gunpowder ,and firearms, the bow had fallen into disuse as a weapon of war, the
  45. Would be attacked by the royal military, and seeking to gain ammunition and, gunpowder ,for the general populace, stormed the Bastille, a fortress-prison in Paris
  46. Artist et Natural, et de Ultimate Marine contained an encrypted formula for, gunpowder , This claim has been disputed by historians of science. In any case, the
  47. By the English. At this time, the Burgundians had the strongest and largest, gunpowder ,arsenal among the European powers, and yet the French, under Joan of Arc's
  48. For aircraft guns. First used in China, cannon were among the earliest forms of, gunpowder ,artillery, and over time replaced siege engines—among other forms of aging
  49. Crown. Starting in 1776,the French secretly supplied the Americans with money, gunpowder , and munitions in order to weaken its arch enemy, Great Britain. When France
  50. The way that battles were fought. In the following year, the English used a, gunpowder ,weapon in a military campaign against the Scottish. However, at this time, the

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