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    A gunpowder magazine is a magazine (building) designed to store the explosive gunpowder in wooden barrels for safety. Gunpowder, until superseded, was...
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    Gunpowder, also commonly known as black powder to distinguish it from modern smokeless powder, is the earliest known chemical explosive. It consists of...
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    bastions and a number of reconstructed buildings within it. The restored gunpowder magazine is the only building that dates to the original Fort George. The fort...
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  • The Ottoman gunpowder magazine (Greek: Οθωμανική πυριτιδαποθήκη) is an Ottoman gunpowder magazine in the city of Larissa, Greece. The building is located...
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  • warships and fortifications Gunpowder magazine, buildings formerly used for storing gunpowder in wooden barrels Magazine (firearms), a device that holds...
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    The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, in earlier centuries often called the Gunpowder Treason Plot or the Jesuit Treason, was an unsuccessful attempted regicide...
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    ground a large gunpowder magazine. During the Austrian attack under the Eugene of Savoy, the Austrian army directly hit the magazine on 17 August 1717...
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    killed. Various proposals were suggested as to where to build the new gunpowder magazine: Priddy's Hard, Boatswain's Hill Coppice (where Defence Munitions...
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  • Powder Magazine, Powder House, or Powderworks may refer to: Powder tower or powder house, a building used to store gunpowder or explosives; common until...
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    referred to as a magazine or the "ship's magazine" by sailors. Historically, when artillery was fired with gunpowder, a warship's magazines were built below...
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    Warren (March 23, 2021). "SIG MCX Spear: The U.S. Army's Next Rifle?". Gunpowder Magazine. Archived from the original on March 29, 2023. Reeves, James (January...
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    Sengan Turret Tamon Turret Kinmeisui Well Kinzo Storehouse Enshogura Gunpowder Magazine Three sections of 'dobei' mud-and-plaster wall all located around...
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  • recited by many on the eve of Yom Kippur. On November 18, 1804, a gunpowder magazine exploded accidentally in Vilna, killing 31 people and destroying a...
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    medieval warfare. It is associated with the start of the widespread use of gunpowder and the development of suitable weapons to use the explosive, including...
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    responsible for the construction of two gunpowder magazines at the Christianshavn Rampart. Construction of the first magazine, located at Vilhelms Bastion, was...
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    Gunpowder is the first explosive to have been developed. Popularly listed as one of the "Four Great Inventions" of China, it was invented during the late...
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    The Hessian Powder Magazine, also known as the Hessian Guardhouse Museum, is an historic guardhouse and gunpowder magazine which is located on the grounds...
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    events reached Virginia), Lord Dunmore ordered the removal of the gunpowder from the magazine in Williamsburg, Virginia to a Royal Navy ship. This action sparked...
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  • May 2022. Gray, Warren (20 June 2020). "The Guns of Delta Force". Gunpowder Magazine. Archived from the original on 13 April 2021. Retrieved 18 May 2022...
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    in the crater created by the detonation of the gunpowder magazine. The location of the gunpowder magazine that was ignited during the battle is marked by...
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    damaged during the 1687 siege by the Venetians during the Morean War when gunpowder being stored by the then Turkish rulers in the Parthenon was hit by a...
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    incident" covers all bases. 1660s: In 1660, lightning ignited the gunpowder magazine at Osaka Castle, Japan; the resultant explosion set the castle on...
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    In the 1790s a gunpowder magazine was constructed on Tipner Point (as part of the Board of Ordnance's policy of distributing gunpowder stored near the...
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    Integration Group Gray, Warren (20 June 2020). "The Guns of Delta Force". Gunpowder Magazine. Archived from the original on 21 June 2022. Retrieved 24 August 2022...
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    1652. Fabritius died young, caught in the explosion of the Delft gunpowder magazine on 12 October 1654, which destroyed a quarter of the city, along with...
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    established a gunpowder magazine on the west side of the peninsula, which was in operation by 1695, serving as the government's primary magazine (where newly...
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    province in the Philippines, right after Bonifacio's attack on the gunpowder magazine at the Battle of San Juan del Monte in Manila. The revolution began...
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    Sydney Harbour. The island is a former gunpowder storage, arsenal, bacteriology station, shipyard, powder magazine, maintenance facility and accommodation...
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  • The CCC Company 947 Powder Magazine is a historic powder magazine in the eastern part of Ouachita National Forest. It is located in southern Yell County...
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    on the west side, was damaged in 1590 by the explosion of a nearby gunpowder magazine and its ceiling was replaced by the current Baroque-style plaster...
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