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[[Image:0031 Mountain battery.jpg|400px|]] '''Punjab Mountain Battery.''' Model showing ‘swivel’ gun barrel on mule and officer and men drawn from various regiments. [[Image:0032 Swivel gun.jpg|400px|]] '''Bronze ‘swivel’ gun''' screwed together and mounted on carriage. Wheels bound in bronze. [[Image:0032a article.jpg|400px300px|]]
[[Image:0037 Bronze 24-pdr.jpg|thumb|400px|24-pounder from Kurnaul]]
[[Image:0038 Bronze 6-pdr.jpg|400px|]] [[Image:0038a 6-pdr drg.jpg|400px450px|]]
[[ImageL 5ft ( 152.4cm):0039a 5ft 8.5in (174cm) Cal 2.3in (5.8cm) Wt 4cwt 2-pdrqtr 25lb (239.jpg|400px|]]9Kg)
L 5ft ( 152.4cm): 5ft 8.5in (174cm) Cal 2.3in (5.8cm) Wt 4cwt 2 qtr 25lb (239.9Kg)
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:1. Translates as ‘Maharajah Brijander Sujjan Singh Bahadur’ which is assumed to be the name of a monarch.<br>
:2. This reads ‘Maharajah Pirthi Andar Siwai Jawahir Singh Bahadur or Maharajah Briji Andar Siwai Jawahir Singh Bahadur, the latter being preferred and is again the name of a monarch.<br>
:3. This has been more difficult to decipher but assumed to read ‘Maharao Manbhir Singh tup-i-burj-i-in Maqam Sakt Walu Kari-gar which translates to ‘Maharao Manbhir Singh made the cannon of the citadel of this place Walu was the artificer’.
The figures LXXII are obviously the work of some European, and are in no way connected with the writing.<br>
=== Sutlej Campaign 6-pounder ===
<gallery caption= widths="200px" heights="200px" perrow="4">[[Image:0027 Fort Nelson gun.jpg|400px|]] [[Image:0028 Fort Nelson gun.jpg|400px|]] '''Indian gun 6-pounder.''' Captured from the Sikhs during the [[1st Sikh War|Sutlej Campaign]] c1845. Field gun, British pattern- Horse Artillery. Image:0028 Fort Nelson gun.jpg|Acquired from the family of Sir Hugh Gough who finally defeated the Sikhs in the [[2nd Sikh War]] 1849 at [[Battle of Gujerat 1849|Gujrat]]. Carriage decorated with two figures of Sikhs, possibly representing Ranjit Singh himself. [[Image:0029 Fort Nelson gun.jpg|400px|]] '''Cutter''' from 6-pounder above in form of peacock. [[Image:0030 Fort Nelson gun.jpg|400px|]] '''Trail arm hook''' on limber ornamented with small brass figure representing mahout.</gallery>
=== Mountain Battery Swivel Gun ===
<gallery caption= widths="300px" heights="200px" perrow="2">
Image:0031 Mountain battery.jpg|'''Punjab Mountain Battery.''' Model showing ‘swivel’ gun barrel on mule and officer and men drawn from various regiments.
Image:0032 Swivel gun.jpg|'''Bronze ‘swivel’ gun''' screwed together and mounted on carriage. Wheels bound in bronze.
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=== Sikh bronze 7-pounder ===
This piece is decorated with palmette ornament in relief and there are cartouches with inscriptions in northwest Indian script, now practically illegible. The gun is equipped with a pair of lifting rings at breech and muzzle and also dolphins; the base ring is stamped with the weight 11-0-3 and the cascable is numbered 7. Two small blocks form a fore sight and a rear sight.
Said to have been captured at Chillianwala but now thought to be Sutlej.
[[Image:0035 Bronze 9-pdr.jpg|400px|thumb|The 9-pounder Howitzer]]
[[Image:0036 Bronze mortar.jpg|thumb|400px|Bronze Tiger Mortar]]
[[Image:0037 Bronze 24-pdr.jpg|thumb|400px|24-pounder from Kurnaul]]
[[Image:0038 Bronze 6-pdr.jpg|thumb|400px|6-pounder ]]
[[Image:0039 Bronze 2-pdr.jpg|400px|thumb|2-pounder]]
'''Bronze Gun or Howitzer''', 9-pounder (PL.52)
The piece is cast in the form of a sitting tiger, the muzzle issuing from open jaws, the surface being modelled and chased to simulate stripes. It appears to be unfinished since the vent is not drilled and the bore has not been cleaned after casting. There is a lifting loop at the front, on the under side.
L 4ft 6in (137.2cm) Cal 9.4in ( 23.9cm) Diam chamber 7.2in (18.3cm)
Found concealed in the Fort at [[Kurnool|Kurnaul]], [[Madras Presidency]], in 1838 together with 219qv.
=== Kurnaul 24-pounder ===
0037a 24-pdr drg
=== Bhurtpore 6-pounder ===
'''Bronze Gun 6-pounder'''<br>
The bore is sleeved with an iron tube constructed of welded parallel strips. There is a band of conventional flowers and foliage by the trunnions and on the base ring, the cascable being stylised lotus form. Diamond-shaped cartouches on the second reinforce and on the chase frame Hindu names and Hindi titles in Persian inscriptions. These are much worn and in parts illegible, but they appear to state that the gun was made to order of the ‘Earth-lord Maharajah Sava’i Jai Bahadur’. The base ring carries a back sight. By the vent, the first reinforce is incised with the number LXIII and 67-0-0, the latter probably the weight. Further forward is stamped ANO 24 6Pr. These markings were added after the capture of the gun.
L11ft 4in (345.4cm): 12ft 8in (386.1cm) Cal 3.75in (9.5cm) Wt 67cwt(3403.6kg)
Captured at Bhurtpore in 1826 by General Viscount Combermere, later Field Marshal and Constable of the Tower. Presented by the East India Company in 1856 (1859 inventory, xix 78). The inscriptions show that this gun was cast to the order of Sava i Jai Singh, ruler of Amber (modern Jaipur) from 1693 to 1743. He was the founder of Jaipur and is famous for the astronomical observatories which he built in various places in N. India.
=== Indian bronze 2-pounder ===
[[Image:0039 Bronze 0039a 2-pdr.jpg|400px|]]
'''Bronze Gun 2-pounder'''<br>
The muzzle is formed as a monster’s head. The prominent mouldings are edged with conventional foliage, the chase and second reinforce being ornamented with foliated panels in relief. A raised block on the base ring is pierced with a peep sight, there being a large fore sight at the muzzle. The chase is engraved with the measurements: ‘Length 10 in 5, width 2in 5, 10’. Just below the first reinforce ring are stamped the numbers 59-4-2-25, the first being an inventory number, the other its weight. The entire surface shows considerable traces of gold paint.
Transferred from the India Office to the Indian Section of the Victoria & Albert Museum, in 1894, and from the Museum to the Armouries in 1958.
L6ft 7in (200.7cm) Cal 3.7 in (9.4cm) Wt 12 cwt 21lb (619.1kg)
Believed to have been taken at the [[Battle of Chillianwallah]] 1849. Presented to the Royal Hospital Chelsea by the East India Company in 1856. Transferred to the Armouries in 1925, but remaining on loan to the Hospital
