Gunpowder artillery in the Middle Ages primarily consisted of the introduction of the cannon, large tubular firearms designed to fire a heavy projectile over a long distance. Guns, bombs, rockets …

An arquebus (/ ˈɑːrk (w) əbəs / AR-k (w)ə-bəs) is a form of long gun that appeared in Europe and the Ottoman Empire during the 15th century. An infantryman armed with an arquebus is called …

2020年2月16日 · The best source (perhaps my favourite overall) was a series of surviving ‘views’ from the 1470s & 1480s that give the exact types and locations of guns throughout the …

2009年10月21日 · The two largest of Henry VII’s ships, the 1000-ton Regent and the 600-ton Sovereign, built in the 1480s, carried prodigious numbers of guns. The 1495 inventory of the …

2024年10月30日 · France (including Burgundy) remained the most advanced manufacturer, although its guns and casting techniques rapidly proliferated to other parts of Europe. Already …

Historians consider firearms to have reached the form of a "classic gun" in the 1480s, which persisted until the mid-18th century. This "classic" form displayed longer, lighter, more …

It was then that guns became widely adopted, grew in power and size, and, finally, toward the 1480s, took on their classic form, which would remain largely the same for the next three …

By the 1480s, all types of European guns had become better, so much so that when Portuguese mariners brought them to China in the early 1500s, Chinese acknowledged their superi-

2017年11月22日 · Their strategy was basically to divide the cannons in three groups: the largest, most powerful (bombards, lombardas) were used to batter down the walls and towers, medium …

2018年10月11日 · Guns were first introduced to America by the Spanish in the initial conquest of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Superiority in firepower allowed these colonists …