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    A Coehorn /ˈkoʊhɔːrn/ (also spelled cohorn) is a lightweight mortar originally designed by Dutch military engineer Menno van Coehoorn. Van Coehoorn came...
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    shell, which had a fuse that was lit by the hot gases when fired. The Coehorn mortar gained quick popularity, necessitating a new form of naval ship...
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    Musketoon Wall gun Field gun Culverin / demi-culverin Hongyipao Hand mortar Coehorn Zamburak Hwacha Breech-loading swivel gun Siege cannon (e.g. Abus Gun,...
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    armies. It was used during both battles and sieges. For several centuries Coehorn mortars were fired indirectly because their fixed elevation meant range...
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    be disassembled and carried by rail or ship to travel any distance. The Coehorn mortar however was a type of small mortar light enough to be carried by...
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    gunners switched to canister shot, which was augmented by fire from the coehorn mortars situated behind the government front line. As there was no need...
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    breached. Van Coehoorn developed a small and easily movable mortar named the coehorn, variations of which were used in sieges until the 19th century. It would...
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    were used during the war: siege & garrison (light), seacoast (heavy) and Coehorns are also classified as siege & garrison. (Ripley 1984, pp. 60–61) While...
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    escape by sea, while Joseph Wightman's force of around 1,000 men with four Coehorn mortars advanced towards Glen Shiel. On 9 June, they reached Loch Cluanie...
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    the Dutch Republic, Stedman married a Dutch woman, Adriana Wierts van Coehorn, and started a family with her. According to Stanbury Thompson's edition...
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    Retrieved 26 February 2023 – via The long, long trail. Forty ancient Coehorn mortars, firing spherical ammunition using black powder charges,were obtained...
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    many. Union artillery bombarded the Confederates with a battery of eight Coehorn mortars; the Confederates responded by depressing the trail of a 24-pound...
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    guns (smooth), one 24-pounder F. D. howitzer (smooth), one 24-pounder Coehorn mortar. Magazines, two; dry and in good condition. Ammunition, full supply...
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  • Korea, Vietnam 140 14 cm Minenwerfer M 15  Austria-Hungary World War I 148 Coehorn mortar M. 1841  United States 1841 150 Mortier de 150 mm T Mle 1917 Fabry...
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    Bastion on 10 September.: 478  A third battery of six 18-pounder guns and 12 Coehorn mortars was set up near the old Custom House less than 200 yards (180 m)...
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    many Highlanders were without targes to protect from bayonets). However, Coehorn mortar shelling and devastating enfilade musket fire from the deeply echeloned...
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    included 4.5 inch Parrott Rifles at the Shepherd Battery and two 24-pound Coehorn Mortars and one 10 inch seacoast mortar along the land face. 12-pound Napoleon-M1857...
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  • Bolingbroke   Polybius   Coates [sic]   Lloyd   De Thou   Caesar   Ferguson   Coehorn   Davila   Livy   Nolet   Vauban   Sully   Sullust   Simpson   Trincano...
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    Roman castrum into a seven-bastion baroque fortress, developing Menno van Coehorn's new Dutch system, of which the fortress of Alba Iulia is the best preserved...
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  • kinds of shot: round iron and canister. The other weapon used was the Coehorn mortar. These had a calibre of 4+2⁄5 inches (11 cm). Captain-General: Duke...
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    surprise to the French and British. The French were able to use modèle 1838 Coehorn mortars dating from just after the Napoleonic Wars, some of which were...
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    PH. MORTIER RICHEPANCE LABOISSIERE ROCHAMBEAU HEUDELET MAZAS WATHIEZ COËHORN GUYOT DE LACOUR VALLIN BESSIERES ÉBLÉ CHERIN DELZONS DONZELOT VIALA SCHRAMM...
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    bat., 4th) CdB Mouchon 2nd Division** GD Frère*** 8,834 1st Brigade GB Coehorn 16th Light Regiment (1 bat., 4th) 17th Light Regiment (1 bat., 4th) CdB...
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    Coehoorn demonstrated a light-weight mortar to William, later known as the Coehorn (sic). Designed to provide cover for infantry assaults, it was first used...
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  • refers to a tinker's mortar. Another account refers to a hand mortar as a coehorn, and attributes its invention to a Dutch engineer, Menno Van Coehoorn,...
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    100-pounder rifled Parrott, three 30-pounder rifled Parrotts, two 24-pounder Coehorn mortars, one 10-inch mortar. Magazines, two: dry and in good order. Ammunition...
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  • officers and men, six 12 pounders, six 6 pounders, 4 howitzers and around 30 coehorn mortars) commanded by Captain Orde A detachment of 33 sailors, Lieutenant...
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    left Inverness on 5 June for Glen Shiel with around 1,000 men and four Coehorn mortars. They reached Loch Cluanie on 9 June, less than 8 miles (13 km)...
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    Armstrongs, two 24-pounder howitzers, two eight-inch mortars, and six Coehorn mortars.[citation needed] According to accounts by Hēni Te Kiri Karamū...
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    fort mounted 18 guns, a 10-inch (25 cm) mortar and two 24-pound (10 kg) Coehorn mortars. The batteries were aimed toward the south and west. Originally...
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