Medieval artillery

incendiary weapon used by the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire developed c. 672

thumb|Replica counterweight trebuchets at Château de Castelnaud-la-Chapelle|Château de Castelnaud thumb|Counterweight trebuchet used in a siege from the ''Jami' al-tawarikh'',

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thumb|15th century culveriners

thumb|A drawing of ribauldequins, as designed by Leonardo da Vinci. thumb|Organ gun in the Bellifortis treatise (written ca. 1405, illustration from Clm 30150, ca. 1430)

large 15th century cannon in Scotland

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medieval supergun

type of cannon

type of cannon artillery

category of historical weapons using heat or burning to attack enemy personnel, fortifications or territories

thumb|Vase gun found in Loshult, [[Sweden (1st half of the 14th century?)]]

thumb|A 14th-century Veuglaire, formed of a powder chamber and a tube. The Veuglaire (derived from the German Vogler and Vogelfänger, and the Flemish Vogheler, after a gun manufacturer named Vögler. English: Fowler) was a wrought iron cannon, and part of the artillery of France in the Middle Ages. There, guns were initially called , or .

A Fauconneau was a small type of cannon used during the Middle Ages and the early Renaissance. A typical fauconneau weighed about 25 kg and had a length of about 1 meter. It was a semi-portable weapon. It was mainly an anti-personnel weapon to be used on fixed fortifications. and was used from the 15th to 16th centuries.

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early form of howitzer created by the Ottoman Empire