About 80 results for ‘Round shot’
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Round shot
Round shot (or solid shot, or a cannonball, or simply ball) is a solid projectile without explosive charge, fired from a cannon. As the name implies, round shot is spherical; its diameter is slightly less than the bore of the gun it is fired from. Round shot was made in early times from dressed stone, but by the 17th century, from iron. It was used as the most accurate projectile that could be fired by a smoothbore cannon, used to batter the wooden hulls of opposing ships, fortifications, or fixed emplacements, and as a long-range anti-personnel weapon. Along with pellet shot and grapeshot, round shot was one of the early projectiles used in firearms. Round shot was used by naval guns during most of the age of sail, being replaced after the invention by Benjamin Robins of the extruded bullet around the mid-19th century. In land battles, round shot would often plough through many ranks of troops, causing multiple casualties. It could bounce when it hit the ground, striking men at each bounce. Round shot has the disadvantages of not being tightly fitted into the bore (to do so would cause jamming). This causes the shot to "rattle" down the gun barrel and leave the barrel at an angle unless wadding or a discarding sabot is used. Round shot has been totally replaced by modern bullets in small arms and by modern shells in artillery. Round shot is used in historical recreations and historical replica weapons. Pellet shot (now simply called 'shot') is still used in shotguns. In the 1860s, some round shots were equipped with winglets in order to benefit from the rifling of cannons. Such round shot would benefit from gyroscopic stability, thereby improving their trajectory, until the advent of the ogival shell.
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NAPOLEON AU SIEGE DE TOULON. (titre inscrit)
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- Portrayed subject:
- Artillery
- Cannon
- French Consulate
- Napoleon
- Round shot
- Serviceman
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- Date:
- 19th century
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NAPOLEON SUR LA COLONNE. (titre inscrit)
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- Field(s):
- Ethnology
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- Portrayed subject:
- Napoleon
- Portrait
- Round shot
- Uniform
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- Date:
- 19th century
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GLOIRE NATIONALE. / EUGENE BAUHARNAIS (titre inscrit)
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- Field(s):
- Ethnology
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- Portrayed subject:
- Cannon
- Cavalry
- Charge (warfare)
- Crown (headgear)
- Death
- Eugène de Beauharnais
- …
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- Date:
- 19th century
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454 CHATEAU-THIERRY - LE VIEUX CHATEAU - DANS LES SOUTERR...
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- Field(s):
- Architecture
- Ethnology
- Photography
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- Portrayed subject:
- Château
- Château-Thierry
- Man
- Middle Ages
- Round shot
- Sarcophagus
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- Designation:
- arquebuse
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- Portrayed subject:
- Round shot
- Tent
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Deux trophées [titre attribué]
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Cannon
- Flag
- Leaf
- Oak
- Round shot
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- Date:
- 20th century
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Illustration pour deux chansons françaises [titre attribué]
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Cannon
- Dog
- Flower bouquet
- Passementerie
- Round shot
- Serviceman
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- Date:
- 20th century
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SOLDAT EN COSTUME LOUIS XV
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Cannon
- Clothing
- Cloud
- Littoral zone
- Man
- Round shot
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- Date:
- 19th century
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LES ACTIONS DU GRAND CONDE, BLOCUS DE PARIS 1649
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- Portrayed subject:
- Brie-Comte-Robert
- Cannon
- Cart
- Charenton-le-Pont
- Charge (warfare)
- City
- …
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- Date:
- 17th century
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Statuette de Sainte Barbe [titre attribué]
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- Field(s):
- Ceramic
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- Portrayed subject:
- Round shot
- Saint Barbara
- Speech balloon
- Woman
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- Date:
- 20th century
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- Artist(s):
- Antoine Coysevox
Louis II de Bourbon, prince de Condé
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- Field(s):
- Sculpture
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- Portrayed subject:
- Column
- Louis, Grand Condé
- Man
- Map
- Portrait
- Round shot
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- Date:
- 17th century
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Le Duc d'Orléans (Ferdinand-Philippe, Louis, Charles, Hen...
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- Field(s):
- Sculpture
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- Portrayed subject:
- Cannon
- Man
- Order (honour)
- Portrait
- Round shot
- Uniform
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- Date:
- 19th century
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SCENES DIVERSES DU SIEGE DE SEBASTOPOL. (titre inscrit)
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- Field(s):
- Ethnology
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- Portrayed subject:
- Barrel
- Cadaver
- Cannon
- Crimean War
- Design engineer
- Drum
- …
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- Date:
- 19th century
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BOMBARDEMENT DE SEBASTOPOL. (titre inscrit)
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- Field(s):
- Ethnology
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- Portrayed subject:
- Boat
- Conflagration
- Crimean War
- England
- Flag
- France
- …
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- Date:
- 19th century
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