A petard, from a seventeenth-century manuscript of military designsA 19th-century British army petard (in center, projecting from the copper circle), mounted on a madrier, with braces
A petard is a small bomb used for blowing up gates and walls when breaching fortifications, originally invented in France in 1579.[1] A typical petard was a conical or rectangular metal device containing 5–6 pounds (2–3 kg) of gunpowder, with a slow match for a fuse.
^Curtis, Thomas (1829). The London Encyclopaedia: Or Universal Dictionary Of Science, Art, Literature, And Practical Mechanics, Comprising A Popular View Of The Present State Of Knowledge, Volume 3. p. 15.
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not required, was retained allowing a spigot mortar firing a petard to be added. The petard mortar was a separate development, firing a large demolition...
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high-explosive warhead. The Petard, developed by MD1, was designed for the quick levelling of fortifications. The Petard was reloaded by traversing the...
faith is that putting this up as itself, it will hoist itself on its own petard, that it's comical just as it is," explained producer Maggie Rowe. The show...
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sea duty in March 1942 as first lieutenant of the destroyer Petard. On 30 October 1942 Petard, in conjunction with the destroyers Pakenham and Hero, the...
charges designed to destroy their specific mission's target. Door breaching Petard Bullock, Randy (3 June 2021). "Raw Courage: Clerks, Cooks and Mechanics...
episode of the same name; and Family Guy and Philosophy: A Cure for the Petarded (ISBN 978-1-4051-6316-3), a collection of 17 essays exploring the connections...
vendetta (1980) - Dorothea's Mother Rebelote (1984) - La bouchère Les frères Pétard (1986) ZEN - Zona Espansione Nord (1988) Sale comme un ange (1991) - (scenes...
November 2021. Retrieved 7 November 2021. "A medieval silver coin; a double petard of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, Count of Flanders (1467–1477)". Portable...
Wisnewski, J. Jeremy (ed.). Family Guy and Philosophy: A Cure for the Petarded. The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series. Malden, Massachusetts:...
advent of gunpowder, firearms such as the arquebus and cannon—eventually the petard, mortar and artillery—were developed. These weapons proved so effective...
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Retrieved 19 November 2015. "Rue Bichat :"On pensait que c'étaient des pétards. C'étaient des scènes de guerre "". Le Monde. 14 November 2015. Archived...
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