One enormous Creusot gun on Pepworth Hill threw a 96-pound shell a distance of four miles, and several 40-pound howitzers outweighted our field guns.
Christmas set in amid misery, hunger, and disease, the more piteous for the grim attempts to amuse the children and live up to the joyous season, when the present of Santa Claus was too often a 96-pound shell.
But the cannon were popguns, firing a 7-pound shell for a short range, and the garrison contained only seven hundred regulars, while the remainder were mostly untrained miners and artisans.
The Boers had brought an enormous gun across from Pretoria, throwing a 96-pound shell, and this, with many smaller pieces, played upon the town.
Medium guns, firing a 60-pound shell, are principally employed in counter-battery work and in fulfilling the functions of 18-pound field guns at a greater range and with greater force.
Field Guns, with a calibre of 3 inches, firing an 18-pound shell, are the principal artillery weapon of a field army.
Horse Artillery Guns, firing a 13-pound shell, are the most mobile of all wheeled artillery and are normally employed with mounted troops.
Private Miller, Protectorate Regiment, tampering with a loaded ninety-four-pound shell, was blown to pieces.
Intelligence was also to hand of the Boers bringing up one of the Pretoria siege guns, capable of firing a 94-pound shell.
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