The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c12.s1.31

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Moor, “Narrative”, 420, refers to descriptions of large guns by Dow, “History of Hindostan”, ii, 278 (a reference which I cannot trace in my edition) and by Rennell, “Memoir”, 61. The two referred to by Dow were at Arcot and Dacca. Rennell measured the second of these, but before the end of the 18th century, it and the bank on which it rested had fallen into the river. The weight of an iron shot for it was 465 pounds, and Moor calculates the weight of one for *Malik-i-maidān* to be 2646 1/7 pounds.