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Swiss soldier firing a hand cannon, with powder bag and ramrod at his feet, Шаблон:Circa late 15th century (produced in 1874)

Шаблон:Cannon The hand cannon (Шаблон:Zh or Шаблон:Zh), also known as the gonne or handgonne, is the first true firearm and the successor of the fire lance.Шаблон:Sfn It is the oldest type of small arms as well as the most mechanically simple form of metal barrel firearms. Unlike matchlock firearms it requires direct manual external ignition through a touch hole without any form of firing mechanism. It may also be considered a forerunner of the handgun. The hand cannon was widely used in China from the 13th century onward and later throughout Eurasia in the 14th century. In 15th century Europe, the hand cannon evolved to become the matchlock arquebus, which became the first firearm to have a trigger.Шаблон:Sfn

History

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A Chinese-style "bowl-mouth cannon" found in Java, presumably brought there by the Mongol invasion of Java in 1293 or a Javanese version of it.
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Yuan dynasty bronze hand cannon, 1351

China

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Bronze cannon with inscription dated the 3rd year of the Zhiyuan era (1332) of the Yuan Dynasty (1271–1368); discovered in Beijing in 1935.

The earliest artistic depiction of what might be a hand cannon—a rock sculpture found among the Dazu Rock Carvings—is dated to 1128, much earlier than any recorded or precisely dated archaeological samples, so it is possible that the concept of a cannon-like firearm has existed since the 12th century.[1] This has been challenged by others such as Liu Xu, Cheng Dong, and Benjamin Avichai Katz Sinvany. According to Liu, the weight of the cannon would have been too much for one person to hold, especially with just one arm, and points out that fire lances were being used a decade later at the Siege of De'an. Cheng Dong believes that the figure depicted is actually a wind spirit letting air out of a bag rather than a cannon emitting a blast. Stephen Haw also considered the possibility that the item in question was a bag of air but concludes that it is a cannon because it was grouped with other weapon-wielding sculptures. Sinvany concurred with the wind bag interpretation and that the cannonball indentation was added later on.[2]

The first cannons were likely an evolution of the fire lance. In 1259 a type of "fire-emitting lance" (tūhuǒqiãng 突火槍) made an appearance. According to the History of Song: "It is made from a large bamboo tube, and inside is stuffed a pellet wad (zǐkē 子窠). Once the fire goes off it completely spews the rear pellet wad forth, and the sound is like a bomb that can be heard for five hundred or more paces."Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn[3][4][5] The pellet wad mentioned is possibly the first true bullet in recorded history depending on how bullet is defined, as it did occlude the barrel, unlike previous co-viatives (non-occluding shrapnel) used in the fire lance.Шаблон:Sfn Fire lances transformed from the "bamboo- (or wood- or paper-) barreled firearm to the metal-barreled firearm"Шаблон:Sfn to better withstand the explosive pressure of gunpowder. From there it branched off into several different gunpowder weapons known as "eruptors" in the late 12th and early 13th centuries, with different functions such as the "filling-the-sky erupting tube" which spewed out poisonous gas and porcelain shards, the "hole-boring flying sand magic mist tube" (zuànxuéfēishāshénwùtǒng 鑽穴飛砂神霧筒) which spewed forth sand and poisonous chemicals into orifices, and the more conventional "phalanx-charging fire gourd" which shot out lead pellets.Шаблон:Sfn

Hand cannons first saw widespread usage in China sometime during the 13th century and spread from there to the rest of the world. In 1287 Yuan Jurchen troops deployed hand cannons in putting down a rebellion by the Mongol prince Nayan.Шаблон:Sfn The History of Yuan reports that the cannons of Li Ting's soldiers "caused great damage" and created "such confusion that the enemy soldiers attacked and killed each other."Шаблон:Sfn The hand cannons were used again in the beginning of 1288. Li Ting's "gun-soldiers" or chòngzú (Шаблон:Lang) were able to carry the hand cannons "on their backs". The passage on the 1288 battle is also the first to coin the name chòng (Шаблон:Lang) with the metal radical jīn (Шаблон:Lang) for metal-barrel firearms. Chòng was used instead of the earlier and more ambiguous term huǒtǒng (fire tube; Шаблон:Lang), which may refer to the tubes of fire lances, proto-cannons, or signal flares.Шаблон:Sfn Hand cannons may have also been used in the Mongol invasions of Japan. Japanese descriptions of the invasions talk of iron and bamboo pào causing "light and fire" and emitting 2–3,000 iron bullets.Шаблон:Sfn The Nihon Kokujokushi, written around 1300, mentions huǒtǒng (fire tubes) at the Battle of Tsushima in 1274 and the second coastal assault led by Holdon in 1281. The Hachiman Gudoukun of 1360 mentions iron pào "which caused a flash of light and a loud noise when fired."Шаблон:Sfn The Taiheki of 1370 mentions "iron pào shaped like a bell."Шаблон:Sfn Mongol troops of Yuan dynasty carried Chinese cannons to Java during their 1293 invasion.Шаблон:Sfn

The oldest extant hand cannon bearing a date of production is the Xanadu Gun, which contains an era date corresponding to 1298. The Heilongjiang hand cannon is dated a decade earlier to 1288, corresponding to the military conflict involving Li Ting, but the dating method is based on contextual evidence; the gun bears no inscription or era date.Шаблон:Sfn Another cannon bears an era date that could correspond with the year 1271 in the Gregorian Calendar, but contains an irregular character in the reign name.[6] Other specimens also likely predate the Xanadu and Heilongjiang guns and have been traced as far back as the late Western Xia period (1214–1227), but these too lack inscriptions and era dates (see Wuwei bronze cannon).Шаблон:Sfn

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The earliest reliable evidence of cannons in Europe appeared in 1326 in a register of the municipality of Florence[7] and evidence of their production can be dated as early as 1327.Шаблон:Sfn The first recorded use of gunpowder weapons in Europe was in 1331 when two mounted German knights attacked Cividale del Friuli with gunpowder weapons of some sort.[8][9] By 1338 hand cannons were in widespread use in France.Шаблон:Sfn One of the oldest surviving weapons of this type is the "Loshult gun", a Шаблон:Convert Swedish example from the mid-14th century. In 1999, a group of British and Danish researchers made a replica of the gun and tested it using four period-accurate mixes of gunpowder, firing both Шаблон:Convert arrows and Шаблон:Convert lead balls with Шаблон:Convert charges of gunpowder. The velocities of the arrows varied from Шаблон:Convert to Шаблон:Convert with max ranges of Шаблон:Convert to Шаблон:Convert, while the balls achieve velocities of between Шаблон:Convert to Шаблон:Convert with an average range of Шаблон:Convert.[10] The first English source about handheld firearm (hand cannon) was written in 1473.[11]

Although evidence of cannons appears later in the Middle East than Europe, fire lances were described earlier by Hasan al-Rammah between 1240 and 1280,Шаблон:Sfn and appeared in battles between Muslims and Mongols in 1299 and 1303.Шаблон:Sfn Hand cannons may have been used in the early 14th century.Шаблон:Sfn[12] An Arabic text dating to 1320–1350 describes a type of gunpowder weapon called a midfa which uses gunpowder to shoot projectiles out of a tube at the end of a stock.Шаблон:Sfn Some scholars consider this a hand cannon while others dispute this claim.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The Nasrid army besieging Elche in 1331 made use of "iron pellets shot with fire."[13] According to Paul E. J. Hammer, the Mamluks certainly used cannons by 1342.[14] According to J. Lavin, cannons were used by Moors at the siege of Algeciras in 1343.Шаблон:Sfn Shihab al-Din Abu al-Abbas al-Qalqashandi described a metal cannon firing an iron ball between 1365 and 1376.Шаблон:Sfn

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Cannons are attested to in India starting from 1366.Шаблон:Sfn The Joseon kingdom in Korea acquired knowledge of gunpowder from China by 1372Шаблон:Sfn and started producing cannons by 1377.Шаблон:Sfn In Southeast Asia Đại Việt soldiers were using hand cannons at the very latest by 1390 when they employed them in killing Champa king Che Bong Nga.Шаблон:Sfn Chinese observer recorded the Javanese use of hand cannon for marriage ceremony in 1413 during Zheng He's voyage.[15]Шаблон:Sfn Japan was already aware of gunpowder warfare due to the Mongol invasions during the 13th century, but did not acquire a cannon until a monk took one back to Japan from China in 1510,Шаблон:Sfn and firearms were not produced until 1543, when the Portuguese introduced matchlocks which were known as tanegashima to the Japanese.Шаблон:Sfn The art of firing the hand cannon called Ōzutsu (大筒) has remained as a Ko-budō martial arts form.[16][17]

Middle East

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Turkish hand cannon

The earliest surviving documentary evidence for the use of the hand cannon in the Islamic world are from several Arabic manuscripts dated to the 14th century.[18] The historian Ahmad Y. al-Hassan argues that several 14th-century Arabic manuscripts, one of which was written by Shams al-Din Muhammad al-Ansari al-Dimashqi (1256–1327), report the use of hand cannons by Mamluk-Egyptian forces against the Mongols at the Battle of Ain Jalut in 1260.[19][20][21][22][23] However, Hassan's claim contradicts other historians who claim hand cannons did not appear in the Middle East until the 14th century.[24][25]

Iqtidar Alam Khan argues that it was the Mongols who introduced gunpowder to the Islamic world,Шаблон:Sfn and believes cannons only reached Mamluk Egypt in the 1370s.Шаблон:Sfn According to Joseph Needham, fire lances or proto-guns were known to Muslims by the late 13th century and early 14th century.Шаблон:Sfn However the term midfa, dated to textual sources from 1342 to 1352, cannot be proven to be true hand-guns or bombards, and contemporary accounts of a metal-barrel cannon in the Islamic world do not occur until 1365.Шаблон:Sfn Needham also concludes that in its original form the term midfa refers to the tube or cylinder of a naphtha projector (flamethrower), then after the invention of gunpowder it meant the tube of fire lances, and eventually it applied to the cylinder of hand-gun and cannon.Шаблон:Sfn Similarly, Tonio Andrade dates the textual appearance of cannon in Middle-Eastern sources to the 1360s.Шаблон:Sfn David Ayalon and Gabor Ágoston believe the Mamluks had certainly used siege cannon by the 1360s, but earlier uses of cannon in the Islamic World are vague with a possible appearance in the Emirate of Granada by the 1320s, however evidence is inconclusive.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

Khan claims that it was invading Mongols who introduced gunpowder to the Islamic worldШаблон:Sfn and cites Mamluk antagonism towards early riflemen in their infantry as an example of how gunpowder weapons were not always met with open acceptance in the Middle East.Шаблон:Sfn Similarly, the refusal of their Qizilbash forces to use firearms contributed to the Safavid rout at Chaldiran in 1514.Шаблон:Sfn

Arquebus

Early European hand cannons, such as the socket-handgonne, were relatively easy to produce; smiths often used brass or bronze when making these early gonnes. The production of early hand cannons was not uniform; this resulted in complications when loading or using the gunpowder in the hand cannon.[26] Improvements in hand cannon and gunpowder technology—corned powder, shot ammunition, and development of the flash pan—led to the invention of the arquebus in late 15th-century Europe.Шаблон:Sfn

Design and features

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Ming dynasty hand cannon, 1409

Шаблон:See also The hand cannon consists of a barrel, a handle, and sometimes a socket to insert a wooden stock. Extant samples show that some hand cannons also featured a metal extension as a handle.Шаблон:Sfn

The hand cannon could be held in two hands, but another person is often shown aiding in the ignition process using smoldering wood, coal, red-hot iron rods, or slow-burning matches. The hand cannon could be placed on a rest and held by one hand, while the gunner applied the means of ignition himself.Шаблон:Sfn

Projectiles used in hand cannons were known to include rocks, pebbles, and arrows. Eventually stone projectiles in the shape of balls became the preferred form of ammunition, and then they were replaced by iron balls from the late 14th to 15th centuries.Шаблон:Sfn

Later hand cannons have been shown to include a flash pan attached to the barrel and a touch hole drilled through the side wall instead of the top of the barrel. The flash pan had a leather cover and, later on, a hinged metal lid, to keep the priming powder dry until the moment of firing and to prevent premature firing. These features were carried over to subsequent firearms.Шаблон:Sfn

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Citations

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