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...rm]]s and [[firework]]s. The [[gas]]es generated by [[Conbustion|burning]] gunpowder create enough [[pressure]] to propel a bullet, but not enough to destroy th Gunpowder is a [[explosives#low explosive|low explosive]] – which means that it has

...homas Lee Johnson. ''Naval Ordnance: A Text-book'' (1915), esp ch 13-15 on gunpowder and shells [http://books.google.com/books?id=zEhAAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcov * Guilmartin, John F., Jr. "The Earliest Shipboard Gunpowder Ordnanace: an Analysis of its Technical Parameters and Tactical Capabilitie

...''' is an indirect fire weapon, often muzzle-loader, firing shells using a gunpowder propellant. Mortars are short-barreled, having barrels with a length 10 or ...intended to batter down walls, a mortar, firing hollow shells filled with gunpowder or incendiary material, could fly over the wall to wreak havoc within it.

...antism|Protestant]] [[James I of England|James I]]. The failure of this '[[Gunpowder Plot]]' is marked across the UK with [[bonfire]]s on which an effigy of Guy

* Guilmartin, John Francis, Jr. ''Gunpowder and Galleys: Changing Technology and Mediterranean Warfare at Sea in the Si

...r own stools. Beyond it was a small tower, where the Town Council kept its gunpowder. In 1718, this tower blew up, and the west end of the church was destroyed.

...iber bullet such as .22, as opposed to .38 just for example, contains less gunpowder and thus might seem to be less dangerous to living creatures. But this is

Historically, when artillery was powered by [[gunpowder]], a vessel's magazine would be kept below water level. The [[gunner]] and

...sive forming in the modern sense, because he worked with [[gunpowder|black gunpowder]], the detonation velocity of which is too low for what is generally called

...y powder enough." By this he meant that he had enough money to pay for the gunpowder required for his captors to shoot him.

Castle refortified during the [[Jacobite Rebellion]]; keep used to store [[gunpowder]]

...published his findings in a 99-page paper entitled ''New Experiments upon Gunpowder'', in the 1781 volume of the ''Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Soci explosive power of gunpowder obtained him a membership of the Royal

...es I was present at the dinner given by the company on his escape from the Gunpowder Plot. An English Christmas carol of 1611 'Remember, O thou Man' also has st

...as an evil influence. In 1605, James had narrowly avoided death in the [[Gunpowder Plot]], when [[Catholicism|Catholic]] conspirators tried to blow up the [[H

...northern Tlingit clans in Angoon in 1801, wherein they offered muskets and gunpowder to the Tlingits in exchange for exclusive fur trading rights. On June 20, 1 ...n errant round struck the canoe in which the Tlingit were transporting the gunpowder, igniting the cargo and causing it to explode. When the smoke cleared, it w

...duced [[ballistite]], one of the earliest of the nitroglycerin [[smokeless gunpowder]]s, containing in its latest forms about equal parts of gun-cotton and nitr

...s. The purposes which Milton clearly intended were, firstly, to show that gunpowder is a devilish invention, and, secondly, to emphasise that the war could not

* Guilmartin, John F., Jr. ''Gunpowder and Galleys: Changing Technology and Mediterranean Warfare at Sea in the Si

...wder in 1375 and eliminated Korea's reliance on the imported gunpowder and gunpowder weapons from China. The naval gun's superiority to the traditional means of Although the gunpowder and the rocket originated in China, the Chinese never applied them to naval