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'''Wooden cannons'''
==Expedient technique==
The use of wood for [[cannon]] making could be dictated either by the lack of metal, or the lack of skill to engineer metallic cannons. Wooden cannons were notoriously weak, and could usually fire only a few shots, sometimes even just one shot, before bursting.<ref name="Carman64">{{cite book |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=GmQVan-M3ykC&pg=PA64&dq=%22wooden+cannon%22 |title=A History of Firearms: From Earliest Times to 1914 |author=W. Y. Carman |publisher=Dover Publications |year=2004 |isbn=9780486433905 |page=64}}</ref> The balls for use in such wooden-barreled cannons could be made of various materials such as wood, stone, ceramics, or steel.
Wooden cannons have been used at various times. [[Aurangzeb]] in the [[Deccan]] used such cannons for defensive purposes, as he lacked regular cannons but had abundant wood available.<ref name="Carman64"/>
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