CLIPART: WEAPONS...4

PAGE FOUR: CANNON

 

 

PAGE ONE: MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

PAGE TWO: SWORDS

PAGE THREE: GUNS

PAGE FOUR: CANNON

PAGE FIVE: WAR HAMMERS, MACES, FLAILS, BATTLE AXES

PAGE SIX: ARCHERY

PAGE SEVEN: KNIVES, ETC.

PAGE EIGHT: CATAPULTS, SIEGE TOWERS, ETC.

PAGE NINE: LANCES, PIKES, SPEARS, HALBERDS, ETC.

12 Pound smooth bore Civil War

Civil War cannon at Antietam                                                           ...and Manassas

Salute cannon at Cowes, England                                     Cannon in Haiti

Cannon in Capetown                                                                           ...and Macau

Cannon in Cumbria                                                                       ...and Thailand

Cannon in Oslo                                                                       ...and San Francisco

Cannon in Devon                                                                                                ...and Halloween house cannon

 

Yorkshire cannon...both of these and one below

 

                                                                                                            Cannon guarding the river...once upon a time

Cannon in Morocco                                                                       ...and on Monte Urgull

BELOW: Cannon on ships

HMS Victory

BELOW: Cannonballs

The brass base on the three above is called a 'brass monkey' and is where the saying "freeze the balls off a brass monkey" comes from.

A brass monkey wouldn't work on a ship, so on deck cannonballs were stored in what were called 'shot garlands'...

Below deck, they were kept in 'shot racks'

Siege mortar                                                                          Famous Union mortar...the Dictator

Civil War cannon pulled by horses

Civil War howitzer                                                                             Civil War field gun

Dahlgren                                                                                             Coastal defense

Civil War

Parrott                                                                                             The Lincoln gun at Fort Monroe

German railroad gun                                                                               Cannon at the Tower of London

Forward turrets

More modern broadside showing shockwaves

8 inch howitzer

Anti-tank

American anti-aircraft                                           German anti-aircraft

 

 

  

 

 

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