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Wednesday, 17 July 2019

French experiment with bomb-guns according to the Nederlandsche Staatscourant dated 23 December 1824

Paris, France, 19 December. At Brest were very successful experiments with so called bomb-guns which shoot with a less arched elevation as mortars. Probably they were based on the flight of a rocket. It was expected that this invention was valuable for sea warfare especially for smaller vessels while attacking of defending against larger ships.