The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c13.14

c13.14

Thirteen of the four-pounders taken from the Mahrattas outside Dihlī in September 1803 were of a similar make, namely, they were iron cylinders or bores over which it would seem the metal was run in casting the piece, “the adherence being so close that no chasm appeared, and nothing but the different colours of the two metals discovered the junction. The iron cylinder or bore was composed of four longitudinal pieces of hammered iron, remarkably close and neatly fitted throughout the bore” (Thorn, “War”, 117). Here again we have to remember that these guns were most probably produced in workshops superintended by the Frenchmen in the Mahratta service.