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[[Image:0005 Bronze Gun.jpg|350px|thumb|Bhurtpore gun]]
[[Image:0006_Bronze_Gun.jpg|350px|thumb|right|Bhurtpore gun]]
This gun captured during the [[Siege of Bhurtpore 1826|Siege of Bhurtpore]] in 1826, was cast in 1780 and stands outside the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Arsenal Royal Arsenal] at Woolwich. The extreme length of this gun is 168.6ins and the estimated weight 6.5 tons, calibre 5.5ins. The workmanship is both elaborate and beautiful; there are three inscriptions on this cannon, shown below as 1, 2 and 3
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Beautifully made of mahogany richly mounted with pieced brasswork and inlaid with brass, copper, steel and mother-of-pearl. Calibre, 3,25in; length, 5ft 6in.
=== Other guns ===
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Image:0022 Chainmail.jpg|'''Fine chainmail coat with hood.''' Would have been worn with armour and helmet in mediaeval style, probably by fanatical Sikh horsemen called Gorchuras who went into battle, drug crazed, during the Punjab Campaigns of the 1840’s 1840s and earlier.Also worn by MULRAJ-Diwan of Multan in the first battle of the [[2nd Sikh War]] 1848. '' 'Sometimes he talks of a night attack, and sits up all night in a Hindu temple near the bridge cased in his chain armour from head to foot……. .' ''<ref>from ''Six Battles for India: Anglo-Sikh Wars, 1845-46 and 1848-49'' by George Bruce 1969 ISBN 10: 021317796X ISBN13: 978-0213177966.
Image:0024 Lucknow gun.jpg|'''Smaller bronze gun from Lucknow''', bearing the Oude emblem of the fish; there is an inscription on the reinforce, and ‘By Major Claud Martin, Lucknow’ on the base ring. Calibre, 3.68in; length of bore, 46.4; total length 55in.
Image:0025 Indian 4-pdr.jpg|'''Indian 4 pounder.''' 3.1 in calibre, circa 1820. There appear to be tiger’s heads on the trunnions.
For an online edition of ''Kim'', refer [[Rudyard Kipling]].
This gun at 14ft 4.5 in bore 9.5in cast at Lahore in 1757 and used by Ahmed Shah Abdali, the Afghan, against the Marathas in a combined operation with the Mughals in 1761 at the Battle of Panipat , and subsequently by Ranjit Singh in 17611818 in hs final successful effort to subdue Multan, City and Fort. The gun blasted the walls with 80lbs shot.
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During the [[2nd Burma War]], Commodore Tarlton was in charge of the naval operations at the [[Battle of Martaban]] (on the opposite bank of the Salween River to Moulmein) and also at [[Capture of Pegu June 1852|Pegu]]. His ship was HMS Fox. This ship was a vessel of 1,131 tons, built at Portsmouth in June 1821, re-fitted in September 1850, she was a 5th rate ship of the line, indicating a complement of 46 guns. On her quarterdeck she was armed with 10 32-pounder carronades, one of which corresponds exactly to the weight marked on the Moulmein piece.
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