Round shot
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round-shot-167-16612046
title:
Round shot
text:
A round shot 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 French artillery engineers 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
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Type of artillery projectile
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round_shot
date created:
2005-04-09T22:10:11Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T16:09:20Z
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13
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