Blunderbuss
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The blunderbuss is a seventeenth- to mid-nineteenth-century muzzle-loading firearm with a short, large-caliber, smoothbore barrel. It features a flared muzzle to facilitate loading shot, which usually
A flintlock blunderbuss, built for Tipu Sultan
An English flintlock blunderbuss
A French blunderbuss, called an espingole, 1760, France
Musketoon, blunderbuss and coach gun from the American Civil War era
Tipu Sultan
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Tipu Sultan, commonly referred to as Sher-e-Mysore, was the Sultan of Mysore from 1782 until his death in 1799. He was a pioneer of rocket artillery. He expanded the iron-cased Mysorean rockets and co
Blunderbuss
…A flintlock blunderbuss, built for Tipu Sultan The blunderbuss is a seventeenth- to mid-nineteenth-century muzzle-loading firearm with a short, large-caliber, smoothbore barrel. It features a flared…
Portrait c. 1790s
Birth place of Tipu Sultan
War coat used by Tipu Sultan of Mysore.c. 1785-1790
Mural of the Battle of Pollilur on the walls of Tipu's summer palace, painted to celebrate his triumph over the British