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Wall gun, the Glossary

The wall gun or wall piece was a type of smoothbore firearm used in the 16th through 19th centuries by defending forces to break the advance of enemy troops.^[1]

49 relations: American Revolutionary War, Anti-materiel rifle, Anti-tank rifle, Arquebus, Artillery, Bipod, Blunderbuss, Bolt action, Breechloader, Caliber, Carbine, Cartridge (firearms), Coachman, Dreyse needle gun, Far East, Firearm, Flintlock, George Washington, Hand cannon, Highwayman, Hindi, Hong Kong, Istinggar, Java arquebus, Jezail, Jiaozhi arquebus, Kingdom of Kandy, Matchlock, Musket, Muzzleloader, Myanmar, Napoleonic Wars, Opium Wars, Percussion cap, Punt gun, Pyay, Qing dynasty, Recoilless rifle, Ribauldequin, Rudyard Kipling, Shot (pellet), Six-Day War (1899), Smoothbore, Swivel gun, Taiping Rebellion, Volley gun, Weapon mount, Yoke, Zamburak.
18th-century weapons
Firearms of China
Firearms of India
Muskets
Renaissance-era weapons
Taiping Rebellion

American Revolutionary War

The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was a military conflict that was part of the broader American Revolution, in which American Patriot forces organized as the Continental Army and commanded by George Washington defeated the British Army.

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Anti-materiel rifle

An anti-materiel rifle (AMR) is a rifle designed for use against military equipment, structures, and other hardware (materiel) targets.

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Anti-tank rifle

An anti-tank rifle is an anti-materiel rifle designed to penetrate the armor of armored fighting vehicles, most commonly tanks, armored personnel carriers, and infantry fighting vehicles.

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Arquebus

An arquebus is a form of long gun that appeared in Europe and the Ottoman Empire during the 15th century. Wall gun and arquebus are early firearms and Renaissance-era weapons.

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Artillery

Artillery are ranged weapons that launch munitions far beyond the range and power of infantry firearms.

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Bipod

A bipod is a V-shaped portable attachment that helps support and steady a device, usually a weapon such as a long gun or a mortar.

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Blunderbuss

The blunderbuss is a 17th- to mid-19th-century firearm with a short, large caliber barrel which is commonly flared at the muzzle, to help aid in the loading of shot and other projectiles of relevant quantity or caliber. Wall gun and blunderbuss are 18th-century weapons, early firearms and muskets.

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Bolt action

Bolt-action is a type of manual firearm action that is operated by directly manipulating the bolt via a bolt handle, most commonly placed on the right-hand side of the firearm (as most users are right-handed).

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Breechloader

A breechloader is a firearm in which the user loads the ammunition from the breech end of the barrel (i.e., from the rearward, open end of the gun's barrel), as opposed to a muzzleloader, in which the user loads the ammunition from the (muzzle) end of the barrel.

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Caliber

In guns, particularly firearms, but not artillery, where a different definition may apply, caliber (or calibre; sometimes abbreviated as "cal") is the specified nominal internal diameter of the gun barrel bore – regardless of how or where the bore is measured and whether the finished bore matches that specification.

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Carbine

A carbine is a long gun that has a barrel shortened from its original length. Wall gun and carbine are 18th-century weapons.

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Cartridge (firearms)

A cartridge, also known as a round, is a type of pre-assembled firearm ammunition packaging a projectile (bullet, shot, or slug), a propellant substance (smokeless powder, black powder substitute, or black powder) and an ignition device (primer) within a metallic, paper, or plastic case that is precisely made to fit within the barrel chamber of a breechloading gun, for convenient transportation and handling during shooting.

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Coachman

A coachman is an employee who drives a coach or carriage, a horse-drawn vehicle designed for the conveyance of passengers.

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Dreyse needle gun

The Dreyse needle-gun was a 19th-century military breech-loading rifle, as well as the first breech-loading rifle to use a bolt action to open and close the chamber.

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Far East

The Far East is the geographical region that encompasses the easternmost portion of the Asian continent, including East, North, and Southeast Asia.

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Firearm

A firearm is any type of gun that uses an explosive charge and is designed to be readily carried and used by an individual.

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Flintlock

Flintlock is a general term for any firearm that uses a flint-striking ignition mechanism, the first of which appeared in Western Europe in the early 16th century. Wall gun and Flintlock are 18th-century weapons and early firearms.

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George Washington

George Washington (February 22, 1732, 1799) was an American Founding Father, military officer, and politician who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797.

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Hand cannon

The hand cannon, also known as the gonne or handgonne, is the first true firearm and the successor of the fire lance. Wall gun and hand cannon are early firearms.

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Highwayman

A highwayman was a robber who stole from travellers.

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Hindi

Modern Standard Hindi (आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी, Ādhunik Mānak Hindī), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in Devanagari script.

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Hong Kong

Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.

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Istinggar

Istinggar is a type of matchlock firearm built by the various ethnic groups of the Maritime Southeast Asia. Wall gun and Istinggar are early firearms and muskets.

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Java arquebus

Java arquebus (Indonesian and Malaysian: Bedil Jawa) refers to long-barreled early firearm from the Nusantara archipelago, dating back to the early 16th century. Wall gun and Java arquebus are early firearms.

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Jezail

The jezail or jezzail (جزائل, ultimately from the plural form جزایل, "long ") is a simple, cost-efficient and often handmade long arm commonly used in South Asia and parts of the Middle East in the past. Wall gun and jezail are 18th-century weapons and muskets.

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Jiaozhi arquebus

Jiaozhi arquebus (Giao Chỉ arquebus or Vietnamese arquebus) refers to several types of gunpowder firearms produced historically in Vietnam. Wall gun and Jiaozhi arquebus are early firearms.

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Kingdom of Kandy

The Kingdom of Kandy was a monarchy on the island of Sri Lanka, located in the central and eastern portion of the island.

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Matchlock

A matchlock or firelock is a historical type of firearm wherein the gunpowder is ignited by a burning piece of flammable cord or twine that is in contact with the gunpowder through a mechanism that the musketeer activates by pulling a lever or trigger with their finger. Wall gun and matchlock are early firearms and muskets.

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Musket

A musket is a muzzle-loaded long gun that appeared as a smoothbore weapon in the early 16th century, at first as a heavier variant of the arquebus, capable of penetrating plate armour. Wall gun and musket are 18th-century weapons, early firearms, muskets and Renaissance-era weapons.

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Muzzleloader

A muzzleloader is any firearm in which the user loads the projectile and the propellant charge into the muzzle end of the gun (i.e., from the forward, open end of the gun's barrel). Wall gun and muzzleloader are 18th-century weapons and early firearms.

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Myanmar

Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma (the official name until 1989), is a country in Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million. It is bordered by Bangladesh and India to its northwest, China to its northeast, Laos and Thailand to its east and southeast, and the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal to its south and southwest.

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Napoleonic Wars

The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of conflicts fought between the First French Empire under Napoleon Bonaparte (1804–1815) and a fluctuating array of European coalitions.

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Opium Wars

The Opium Wars were two conflicts waged between China and Western powers during the mid-19th century.

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Percussion cap

The percussion cap, percussion primer, or caplock, introduced in the early 1820s, is a type of single-use percussion ignition device for muzzle loader firearm locks enabling them to fire reliably in any weather condition.

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Punt gun

A punt gun is a type of extremely large shotgun used in the 19th and early 20th centuries for shooting large numbers of waterfowl for commercial harvesting operations.

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Pyay

Pyay (ပြန်,; also known as Prome and Pyè) is the principal town of Pyay Township in the Bago Region in Myanmar.

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Qing dynasty

The Qing dynasty, officially the Great Qing, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last imperial dynasty in Chinese history.

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Recoilless rifle

A recoilless rifle (rifled), recoilless launcher (smoothbore), or simply recoilless gun, sometimes abbreviated to "RR" or "RCL" (for ReCoilLess) is a type of lightweight artillery system or man-portable launcher that is designed to eject some form of countermass such as propellant gas from the rear of the weapon at the moment of firing, creating forward thrust that counteracts most of the weapon's recoil.

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Ribauldequin

A ribauldequin, also known as a rabauld, randy, ribault, ribaudkin, infernal machine or organ gun, was a late medieval volley gun with many small-caliber iron barrels set up parallel on a platform, in use in medieval and early modern Europe during the Renaissance period. Wall gun and ribauldequin are Renaissance-era weapons.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_gun

Also known as Amusette, Gingal, Gingall, Jingal, Rampart gun, Wall Piece.

Wall gun, the Glossary

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See also

18th-century weapons

Firearms of China

Firearms of India

Muskets

Renaissance-era weapons

Taiping Rebellion

References