The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c12.s1.8
The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c12.s1.8
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Most probably throughout the 18th century these guns were mounted on low platforms, and were made to turn on a pivot, such carriages as in 1803 Thorn, "War", 190, called "country block carriages, turning on a large pivot". Fitzclarence, 216, says the generality of the artillery in the forts was so badly mounted that they would be dismounted at the first discharge.