Cannons and there Ammunition

This is a picture of a cannon that was suppossedly used in the French Emperor Napolean. It was dug up at an excavation on March 12,2003 on the edge of Jaffa's Old City, in the south of modern Tel Aviv. The cannon was assumed to have weighed one ton and is 6.5 feet long.







These cannons were being manufactured one hundred years before the arrival of Europeans.  These cannons are smooth bore and muzzle loading.  They were used to signal troops to start and end war. They were also  used by royalty to announce a royal birth or wedding.




This is what the ammunition looked like for the 18th century cannons.



This is more recently used ammo in newer cannons.



This is another example of ammuntion used in the 18th century cannons.



This is a 500 year old cannon.  The ammuntion used for this cannon had Rose Mary in them.  This is a bronze cannon.  This cannon was best used for traveling than the regular one ton cannons.


Cannons have been around since the Middle Ages. Since that time, cannons developed from sled-drawn tubes to the high-tech pieces that armies field today. There essentially two types of cannons: smoothbore and rifled. Smoothbore cannons are the oldest examples of artillery. They are usually cast iron or brass and the inside of the barrel is smooth. These types of cannons fire a ball. Rifled cannons have circular grooves cut into the inside of the barrel and fire a projectile or shell. The circular grooves cause the shell to spin in the air, which allows it travel farther and have more accuracy.