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the City of London Yeomanry was a regiment of the British Territorial Army which served at various times as a cavalry, infantry, artillery, anti-aircraft, and armoured unit, and now forms a squadron of the Royal Corps of Signals.

the Château de Saint-Cloud near Paris burned to the ground on 13 October 1870 after being hit by French artillery fire during the siege of Paris.

the Grand Crimean Central Railway was built to transport artillery ammunition from Balaclava to the Allied troops besiging Sevastopol during the Crimean War.

the Leather cannon was an early 17th century attempt of making a mobile cannon that would bridge the gap between muskets and heavy stationary artillery.

the owner of Fairhope Plantation near Uniontown, Alabama, organized his own artillery unit during the American Civil War.

the German submarine U-78 was the only U-boat to be sunk by land-based artillery fire in World War II.

on the last day of the Battle of Hill 170 in January 1945, an estimated 700 Japanese artillery shells landed on the hill.

during the American Civil War, Pittsburgh made the world's first 21-inch caliber gun.

Fort Greble was built so fast that there was no time to construct proper earthen magazines for artillery, and three years later company quarters had to be demolished to add them.

English cannon batteries (pictured) required artillery crews of twelve per gun.

French-designed cannons, manufactured in both the North and the South, were the primary artillery weapons of the American Civil War.

a carcass was a kind of artillery shell fired from a mortar or cannon to burn down enemy defences.

during the English Civil War, Royalist soldiers fired artillery at Leicester from Raw Dykes Roman earthwork.

18th century French artilleries were the most efficient at cannon operation (pictured), capable of firing 150 shots per cannon daily during siege.

Understanding Artillery: A Quiz on Types and History

1 The three main types of artillery 'gun' are guns, ________ and mortars.

2 Blank: Ammunition with live primer, greatly reduced propellant charge (typically ________) and no projectile; used for training, demonstration or ceremonial use.

3 That leaves six combinations of the three criteria, some of which have been termed ________.

4 The first land-based mobile weapon is usually credited to Jan Žižka, who deployed his oxen-hauled cannon during the ________ of Bohemia (1418–1424).

5 These small, crude weapons diffused into the ________ (the madfaa) and reached Europe in the 13th century, in a very limited manner.

6 Capable of both high- and low-angle fire, they are most often employed in an ________ role, capable of operating in defilade.

7 Artillery is a military combat arm that employs ________ capable of discharging large projectiles in combat.

8 This can be accomplished either through time fuzes or ________.

9 Modern mortars, because of their lighter weight and simpler, more transportable design, are usually an integral part of infantry and, in some armies, ________ units.

10 Targets in depth may also be 'acquired' by intelligence processes using various sources and agencies such as HUMINT, SIGINT, ________ and IMINT.

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