The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c12.s1.16

c12.s1.16

One of these large guns was to be found at Aḥmadnagar in the Dakhin. Fitzclarence, 243, says it was about 25 feet long, and it was said to have carried shot into Sir Arthur Wellesley’s camp in 1803 “though it was pitched out of range of all reasonable weapons”. It was, perhaps, the same as the *malik-i-maidān*, (King of the Battle-field), described by Horn, 132, quoting Meadows Taylor and J. Fergusson’s “Architecture of Beejepore”, which is declared by those writers to be the largest piece of ordnance in the world. The metal is an alloy of 80.427 parts of copper to 19.573 parts of tin. The dimensions are