The Paixhans gun (French: Canon Paixhans, French pronunciation: [pɛksɑ̃]) was the first naval gun designed to fire explosive shells. It was developed by...
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wrote: "Terre! l'obus est Dieu, Paixhans est son prophète." ("Earth! the shell is God, Paixhans is his Prophet.") Paixhans developed a delaying mechanism...
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The Paixhans gun (French: Canon Paixhans) was the first naval gun using explosive shells. It was developed by French general Henri-Joseph Paixhans in 1822–1823...
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Gribeauval system. The very first canon-obusiers were naval shell guns, invented in 1823 by Henri-Joseph Paixhans and introduced in the French Navy in...
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She was the first ship to sustain damage from Paixhans shells, during test-firing of Paixhans' canon-obusiers. Commissioned in Antwerp in 1814, Pacificateur...
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Henri-Joseph Paixhans. The mortar was manufactured under the direction of the Belgian Minister of War Baron Louis Evain and cast at the Royal Canon Foundry...
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Trafalgar." Bloomsbury Publishing, January 2018. Paixhans 1822, p. 11. Paixhans 1822, p. 13. Paixhans 1822, p. 56. McConnell 1988, p. 63. Douglas 1855...
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Hotchkiss "Canon-Revolver" (1872) Mitrailleuse Gatling modèle APX 1895 (1895) Mle 1897 Hotchkiss Machine gun (1897) Cannons Year XI system (1803) Paixhans gun...
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accuracy and range.... The difference between the system of Paixhans and my own was simply that Paixhans guns were strictly shell guns, and were not designed...
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in response to new developments of naval gun technology, especially the Paixhans guns and rifled guns, which used explosive shells with increased destructive...
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the other half being 60-pounder Paixhans guns. The middle deck fielded 18 30-pounder short guns and another 18 Paixhans guns of 60 pounds. The upper battery...
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emerge in shell-firing canon obusiers, with the invention of the naval shell-gun by Paixhans in 1823, and the introduction of the canon obusier de 12 in 1853...
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Škoda 24 cm L/40 K97 Austria-Hungary World War I 200–250 mm (7.9–9.8 in) Paixhans guns France 1841 254 mm (10.0 in) 10"/31 caliber gun United States 1890s...
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artillery Paixhans guns nineteenth-century naval guns Canon de 305 mm Modèle 1887 Railroad artillery Canon de 19 modèle 1870/93 TAZ Canon de 164 modèle...
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designed to fire explosive shells was the Paixhans gun, developed by the French general Henri-Joseph Paixhans in 1822–1823. He advocated using flat-trajectory...
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2 km/h; 14.4 mph). Dupuy de Lôme's main armament consisted of two 45-calibre Canon de 194 mm Modèle 1887 guns that were mounted in single gun turrets, one...
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"The canon-obusier [shell gun] originally constructed by Colonel Paixhans for the French Naval Service ... was subsequently designated the canon-obusier...
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naval gun 75 mm Model 1924 naval gun Canon de 65 mm Modèle 1891 Canon Hotchkiss à tir rapide de 47 mm Paixhans guns 40.6 cm SK C/34 Naval gun - also...
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compounded with their quick obsolescence caused by the introduction of the Paixhans gun, steam engines and armour plating. Ships designed by the Commission...
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