content_output-052_2 (Q6242)
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In 1413 Mahomet II. had one of these huge weapons at the siege of Constantinople. It is reported to have been forty-eight inches in diameter, and to have fired a stone bullet of 600 lbs. weight. Froissart states that the people of Ghent made a large cannon which was used by D'Ardevelde at the siege of Oudenarde: "Therefore to terrify the garrison he caused to be made a marvellous great bombard; which was forty feet long, and threw great heavy stones of wonderful bigness."
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